The lists of credit unions that had previously sold their card portfolios to banks only to come back into issuing again grew last week as the 60,000-member $1 billion Eli Lilly Federal Credit Union converted a card portfolio that it had previously sold to a bank back to its own systems again.

The Indianapolis-based credit union had sold its 6,800-card $20 million portfolio to MBNA in 2002.

"We sold it at the time because we didn't believe we had the expertise we needed for card issuing," explained Rich Jones, senior vice president with the credit union. "But in the year's since we decided we wanted to buy it back and offer the member service we believe our brand needs to have."

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