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• Community Banks Start Move Into Prepaid Cards

  By David Morrison  |  March 14, 2012

  If credit union members want to use a prepaid debit card and cannot get one from their CU, they may head to a community bank.

• Iowa CU Loses Two Campus Branches

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  February 26, 2012

  Calling its move discouraging but necessary, the $1.4 billion University of Iowa Community Credit Union has undergone a pullback from its campus operations by closing two branches, ATMs and student ID services in a give-up to a local bank.

• Microloans May Be a Sweet Territory for Credit Unions

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  December 4, 2011

  There are members who want to strike out on their own but just need a little start-up capital to get a small lawn care business going or market an electrical repair shop.

• Royal Credit Union Buys Bank’s Mortgage Servicing

  By David Morrison  |  October 17, 2011

  The 135,000-member Royal Credit Union has purchased the mortgage servicing rights to $600 million in mortgage loans from a local bank that the FDIC subsequently took over and sold to another bank.

• Intuit Poll: Uptick in PFM

  November 17, 2010

  The number of Americans using online personal financial management tools from their financial institutions is growing, and nearly half recently switched

• Vendor's Poll Finds PFM Uptake

  By Marc Rapport  |  October 29, 2010

  More than one third of American adults now use online personal financial management (PFM) tools from their financial institutions and nearly half had switched banks or credit unions recently.

• Bill Cheney Interview Transcript

  October 27, 2010

  Read the complete transcript of an interview between Sarah Snell Cooke, editor-in-chief of Credit Union Times, and CUNA CEO Bill Cheney discussing his first 100 days in the position with links to video.

• CU Aids Stone Mill Rehab

  October 6, 2010

  The GPO Federal Credit Union will administer a $650,000 government loan to renovate a stone mill built in 1839 to include tourism and business spaces.

• In Slogging Our Way to Survival, We Must All Hang Together

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  September 29, 2010

  As I write this, the entire credit union industry is jittery with anticipation regarding Friday, Sept. 24 with the corporate credit union regulation and legacy asset plan and possible execution of it.

• N.Y. CU Aids in Rehab of 171-Year-Old Stone Mill

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 24, 2010

  A $650,000 government loan administered by the GPO Federal Credit Union will be used to renovate a stone mill built in 1839 to include tourism and business spaces.