loan applications

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  Loan App Skepticism a Challenge for CUs and Members

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  March 8, 2013

  About 18 months ago, Steve Hoke and his team were discussing how indirect lending could potentially be a better process for credit unions and give members usable information that would actually result in driving that coveted vehicle off the dealership’s lot.

• SBA to Expand Access to Loan Programs

  By Michelle Samaad  |  February 26, 2013

  Borrowers and lenders of loans backed by the SBA will have greater access to capital and less paperwork to deal with.

• Hope FCU Mobile App to Aid Low-Income Members

  By David Morrison  |  February 20, 2013

  William Bynum, CEO of the 28,000 member, $161 million Hope Federal Credit Union, believes the Jackson, Miss.-based credit union’s new mobile app is the first step in what he and the credit union foresee as an effort to make widespread banking and financial management solutions available to lower income people...

• Next Generation Mobile Banking Preps for New Revenue

  By Peter Strozniak  |  February 20, 2013

  Mobile phones are more than just phones. They have become indispensable portable computers, helping manage our personal lives, connecting us at all times to the office and bringing us the information we want, when we want it at the speed of light.

• Former CU Manager Faces 30 Years

  By Staff Writer  |  February 13, 2013

  Patricia Piscioneri, a former credit union manager, may face up to 30 years in federal prison, after pleading guilty to embezzling $156,571 from the former Adams Municipal Employees Federal Credit Union in Adams, Mass.

• Against the Grain ESOP

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  February 6, 2013

  At a time when some companies are skittish about paying out stored-up pension plans for longtime employees, Lending Solutions Inc. recently went in the other direction.

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  Dividends

  January 30, 2013

  CEFCU, Peoria, Ill., announced that a record extraordinary dividend of $9 million has been distributed to CEFCU members. The dividend was based on members’ savings and loan activity during, with $4.5 million going to borrowers and $4.5 million going to savers.

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  Mississippi Delta CEO Says App for Underserved Merely First Step

  By David Morrison  |  January 29, 2013

  Hope Federal Credit Union releases mobile app; CEO notes Mississippi has highest percentage of wireless homes in the nation.

• Pleading Guilty to Embezzlement, Former Credit Union Manager Faces 30 Years in Federal Prison

  By Peter Strozniak  |  January 23, 2013

  Patricia Piscioneri accused of four years of inside theft from small Massachusetts credit union.

• CU Direct’s Cash Dividend Eighth in a Row

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  January 15, 2013

  Lending solution provider CU Direct Corp. said its board of directors recently approved a 3% cash dividend to its 102 shareholders.