TAMPA, Fla. - If people take out medical insurance for themselves or family for those `just in case' situations, then why not do the same for their pets? That was pretty much the attitude when Bay Gulf Credit Union decided to offer Pet Protect health insurance through its Advantages in...

WASHINGTON - Delinquencies fell during the fourth quarter of 2002 nationwide, but the Mortgage Bankers Association cautions the country's overall economy will play a key role in what happens in the near future. "We expect to see delinquencies fall as the economy improves and generates job growth," Doug Duncan, MBA's...

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Most credit unions would consider joining the Billionaires Club a sign of maturity. But President/CEO Steve Lumm quips that Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union will spend the coming year "figuring out what we want to be when we grow up." Until January 1 this year, AAFCU...

TORONTO - The Credit Union Institute of Canada has launched a new online learning system to serve 20,000 employees in 650 credit unions throughout the country. The effort is expected to complement other initiatives, such as one in Manitoba that also reaches into British Columbia and Prince Edward Island Cheryl...

NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Credit unions and banks can help identify financial exploitation of vulnerable adults without violating confidentiality provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Who says so? Alan Greenspan, chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Dennis Dollar, chairman, NCUA; Donald E. Powell, chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Affinity FCU President/CEO John Fenton amusingly recalls the image he conveyed when he assumed his responsibilities at AFCU eight years ago. Employees, he said, used to make sure they looked especially busy whenever they saw him because they thought Fenton was checking up on them. "I...

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. - President/CEO Robert Allen glances out the window of his office at Teachers Federal Credit Union and counts. "There are three banks within sight of my office," he reports. "One prides itself on being open seven days a week. We're open a full six days a week." That's...

LANSING, Mich. - "It opens a door." That's how Jill Abendroth describes Earn It Back, which links Capital Area Michigan Works! with Capital Community Credit Union in an effort to help people who have bounced checks or failed to promptly pay NSF transactions re-establish their personal finances. Abendroth, CCCU community...