BATON ROUGE, La. - Edward Speed, CEO of the $900 million Texas Dow Employees CU in Lake Jackson, Tex., and a private pilot, got the urgent call Sept. 2 that another CU - with the Dow name but unrelated - was in desperate need of cash to handle the flood...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - After less than three months on the job, Peter Henthorn, the Colorado consultant who took over as president and CEO of the South Dakota Credit Union League, has been let go following a policy clash with League directors. "It was simply a matter of vision for...

ATLANTA - Implementing a new "retail delivery strategy," Delta Employees Credit Union is relocating two of its airport branches into local communities and adding new facilities in the Atlanta market. The moves, including the hiring of an Atlanta design firm to handle branding, construction and "real estate acquisition", comes amidst...

WASHINGTON - Responding in unprecedented fashion, credit unions across the U.S. led by state and national trade organizations including the National Credit Union Foundation began mobilizing disaster relief and charitable campaigns on a massive scale to aid Gulf Coast hurricane victims. "The devastation is so widespread we don't even have...

GROTON, Conn. - The banner ads placed late last month by Charter Federal Oak Credit Union in Groton newspapers said it all, "WE DID IT!" and the "It" of course, was sparing the U.S. Navy Submarine Base from a Pentagon shutdown, a decision made by the Base Realignment and Closure...

PORTLAND, Me. -So far Maine credit unions have won one and lost one in their combined efforts with state and local business leaders to protect military bases. Acting Aug. 24, the U.S. Defense Dept.'s Base Realignment and Closure Commission overturned a previous May plan which would have closed the big...

INDIANAPOLIS - The $918 million Forum Credit Union got plenty of media mileage this month out of its $25 million expansion of its new headquarters building in suburban Fishers, but it also triggered an attack from the Indiana Bankers Association. The banker blast came in a letter to the editor...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - For more than a year now, Shelley Hostetter, branch manager at Envision Credit Union, has become quite skilled at landing new loan and deposit business among the throngs of Wal-Mart shoppers at the retailer's popular new westside SuperCenter store. Donning her bright teal apron with the Envision...