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  Mergers Will Continue to Cull Small Credit Unions From Herd

  By Robert McGarvey  |  February 27, 2013

  Every day, six days a week, a credit union closes and never re-opens. That has been going on for many years. More than 3% of credit unions have annually closed for the past decade. By 2025, the United States will have around 4,500 credit unions.

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  Mergers Will Continue to Cull the CU Herd: Print Preview

  By Robert McGarvey  |  February 21, 2013

  Do the math. Look to your right. Look to your left. One in three credit unions will vanish by 2025. Find out more in this week's preview from next week's print edition.

• Community First Launches Facebook Community Project Contest

  By Marc Rapport  |  April 18, 2012

  Entries judged by number of "likes" and then chosen by credit union for $1,000 sponsorship.

• Critical Incident Management for Credit Union Leaders

  By Robert Goldfinger  |  February 7, 2012

  Here's a high-level introduction to the subject including critical incident management roles and tasks for credit unions.

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  Mobile, Online, RDC, Small Business Are Areas for IT Growth at CUs

  By Marc Rapport  |  April 13, 2011

  The banking crisis of the past couple years has created both challenge and opportunity for credit unions as they adapt their IT tools to a new normal.

• CU Uses Enterprise System

  By Marc Rapport  |  March 4, 2011

  Canada’s second-largest credit union is now using a sophisticated enterprise management system as a high-tech tool in its fight against an old-school problem–theft.

• Firethorn Mobile Gets PSECU, CU*Answers Nod

  November 17, 2010

  The 370,000 members of Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) and more than 10 million members of credit unions served by

• Bay Federal Credit Union CEO Shares Hard Lessons on Mining Member Data

  By Marc Rapport  |  October 27, 2010

  LAS VEGAS -- Just like bass fishing, where it's said 10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish, typically only relatively few of a bank's customers or a credit union's members are truly profitable.