SAN DIMAS, Calif. -- The Financial Service Centers Cooperative, the shared branching network headquartered on the West Coast, has implemented the Emergency Shared Branching program which allows credit unions which are not using shared branching to sign up to give their members access to their accounts during the emergency.

The $3.9 billion Wescom Credit Union has begun to collect money for victims of California's recent spate of wildfires.

The $3.9 billion Wescom Credit Union has begun to collect money for victims of California's recent spate of wildfires.

A recent survey which found more consumers switch financial institutions over issues with their fee structures than over security may be another indicator of a CU marketing opportunity.

The $1.1 billion Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union has repeated last year's donation of $100,000 to Columbia University to endow a chair in Polish Studies. The CU has also made a point of urging Polish American students to strive not only to attend a university, but also to graduate...

KENSINGTON -- Lawyers for Lafayette Federal Credit Union have denied that the CU is using litigation to punish a former CEO, William Brooks, and his son, William Brooks Jr., for their opposition to the CU's aborted move to become a mutual bank.

The $51 million Latino Community Credit Union will add branches and roll out some much needed products, like fixed rate mortgages, should the CU win a large award from a philanthropic partnership between Wachovia Bank and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

In a move which some credit union supporters expected but hoped would not happen, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a landmark piece of legislation that would have given credit unions recourse in the courts when damaged by a merchant's card security breach.