Louisiana

• Main Street FCU Looks Toward September Revote on Louisiana Merger

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  June 21, 2012

  Proposed merger's benefits being stressed this time around.

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  Teachers of the Year

  May 29, 2012

  The $608 million Neighbors Federal Credit Union in Baton Rouge, La., recently helped recognize the 2012-2013 winners for Teacher of the Year from among its local schools.

• Baton Rouge Credit Unions Swap Refinery Branch Hit By Katrina

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 4, 2012

  Pelican State turns site over to Eagle FCU at Chalmette refinery.

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  Failed Mergers Caused by Multiple Factors

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  February 12, 2012

  The postmortem on last month’s two failed merger attempts that were victims of member opposition hits on three ingredients: poor communications, a rushed timetable and lack of enough advance explanation to constituents and the public.

• Failure to Merge: Print Preview

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  February 9, 2012

  In this Print Preview from next week's edition, industry experts look behind the recent rejection of proposed mergers in Louisiana and Montana.

• Louisiana's Lafayette Schools’ Gets Mobile

  By Marc Rapport  |  February 9, 2012

  Included will be a mobile browser and downloadable shortcuts for iPhone and Android devices.

• Louisiana CU Eyes Re-Vote on Merger Proposal

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  February 7, 2012

  Jefferson Financial CU CEO expects another vote from Main Street Financial members in late 2012 or early 2013.

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  Louisiana FCU Gets Its Mission From Its Founder

  By David Morrison  |  November 13, 2011

  One of the National Credit Union Foundation's more unusual grants this year went to the 28,000-member $201 million asset Carter Federal Credit Union, headquartered in Springhill, La. The foundation provided $25,000 for the credit union to produce financial education trailers that will run before movies at a film camp popular...