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A $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Agency For International Development will help the World Council of Credit Unions create a new forum for Bolivian credit unions to collaborate with microfinance entities.

CUNA teamed up with the National Journal, an inside the beltway publication, to co-sponsor a breakfast featuring top names among political gurus.

The nation's realtors are getting extra attention from the mortgage departments of credit unions. Evidence of that surfaced at this year's conference of the American Credit Union Mortgage Association.

Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who finds himself in a very tight race this year, held a conference call on Columbus Day with Pennsylvania credit union officials.

CUNA Mutual Group was recently named the winner of Australia's CFO magazine's 2006 "Structured Finance Deal of the Year."

As part of the celebration and recognition of International Credit Union Day and to show its support of credit unions' efforts to prevent identity theft, Capitol CUSO, LLC, together with Credit Union Mortgage Services, is hosting a free Shred Day for members on Oct. 21.

A maturing CUSO industry is changing the way CUSOs are being structured to allow for a wider delivery of services and to attract a greater number of investors and partners and accommodate growth.

The National Center for Member Trust, the nonprofit organization founded by three noted credit union leaders to provide credit union members faced with potential credit union conversions with resources on those conversions, has continued to get organized.