SAN ANTONIO - Spending you entire career with a single industry, much less a single employer, may have become increasingly rare as time has gone by, but one credit union executive who is retiring this year thinks more people should give it a try. In October of 1953, Frances Guerra's...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Credit Union League says that Iowans have lost an estimated $10 million after a Federal Court ruled in March 2002 that Iowa's Electronic Funds Transfer law could not apply to federally chartered national banks. The Electronic Funds Transfer Act had been interpreted to disallow...

WASHINGTON - CUNA's 2003 Environmental Scan report and video will include a segment weighing the pros and cons of a credit union selling its credit card portfolio - one of the major findings is just how many CUs have sold off their portfolios. "We had a lot of interest about...

ARLINGTON, Va. - NCR Corporation, the international manufacturer of ATMs based in Dayton, Ohio, has almost finished working on a prototype ATM that will run on solar power and batteries, the company said. "The product is still a prototype but we are working on ironing out the final problems," reported...

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. - The rising cost of health insurance and the question of who should pay the bill promises to get more attention across the nation in the coming months. The issue looms at the heart of a credit union labor dispute in Indiana. On Friday, August 22, members...

ARLINGTON, Va. - When a bank purchases a credit union card portfolio it frequently reviews the credit card accounts of current cardholders with an eye toward increasing the card limits. This is because credit unions, in general, are known for having card portfolios that are not being used to their...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Although CUNA Mutual estimates that the incidence of robbery at the nation's credit unions will be lower this year than in recent years, a credit union somewhere in the country is still robbed almost every day, and some individual robberies are so tragic that they raise the...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa - An organization called Members Group, a CUSO affiliated with the Iowa Credit Union League is among the first to offer credit unions the possibility of allowing their members to purchase pre-paid gift cards online. Card giant Certegy Card Services also has a gift card product...