The recent national push by leagues to reduce program overlap, consolidate and cut costs is bringing heightened interest to those state-to-state management agreements and partnerships among the trade groups.

Citing family worries, Kevin Chandler, the president/CEO of the Credit Union League of Connecticut for the last year and a half, has resigned to return to his home state of Minnesota.

Marking what it believes is a credit union first using interactive TV, the $150 million Charlotte Metro Credit Union disclosed today it has been testing a 30-second interactive ad on Time Warner Cable stations in which viewers hit a special remote to view a longer Charlotte Metro commercial.

The president/CEO of the $143 million Superior Choice Credit Union, targeted by Wisconsin bankers last week for its Norlarco participation loans, said today the CU's "strong, well capitalized position" speaks for itself with no need to get into any verbal fisticuffs to counter a media blast.

Arizona credit unions were marking International Credit Union Day this week with a high-profile "Together We Paint" project at cities across the state involving hundreds of CU employees, members and volunteers spending time painting the homes of seniors and low income families.

Taking a cue from the industry's tax-exemption spin, Wisconsin bankers were waging their latest anti-credit union attack this week over financial fallout impacting a Superior Credit Union caught up in the Norlarco/Huron River Florida land scandal.

In a show of rare unanimity, at least on security matters, the Wisconsin Credit Union League said last week it is joining its banker counterpart in pledging $10,000 to help solve a kidnap and robbery at the branch of a Milwaukee credit union.

The Wisconsin Credit Union League is doing something about compiling and organizing the industry's now-mushrooming track record on advocacy and community outreach by building Web sites, blogs and eventually a data storehouse accessible to the media.