LAS VEGAS - Here's a lesson Wescom Credit Union can share with fellow indirect lenders: don't try too hard to sell checking products to your new members picked up through the indirect channel because the cross-sell doesn't work. In fact, the Pasadena, Calif. CU has given up marketing promotion of...
LAS VEGAS - Until it teamed up a year ago with a San Diego firm with experience in sub-prime indirect loans, Patelco Credit Union in San Francisco knew it was "getting pummeled" in the market and had to find a remedy. The problem, said Chris Oldag, senior vice president of...
LAS VEGAS - Despite Detroit's problems, CU Direct Corp., owner of the California-based and industry-run indirect loan platform, is enjoying a robust year racking up loan gains which could see a 30% jump over 2004, shareholders were told at the annual meeting. Indeed, Tony Boutelle, the president and CEO, said...
OGDEN, Utah - Winding up a 37-year career, Barney B. Chapman, senior vice president and the long-time chief lobbyist for the $3.1 billion America First Federal Credit Union, has retired, the CU has announced. Chapman, who has been at the center of Utah's legendary battles with the banking lobby both...
LAS VEGAS - Credit unions can certainly do a lot more in joint marketing promotions and e-commerce with dealers if they are intent on building members and gaining new loan business, a top Houston dealer told CU executives here. Addressing the closing session of the annual Auto Lending Symposium sponsored...
RICHARDSON, Texas - Although the task ahead appears daunting, the Texas Coalition for Credit Union Members has not given up hope of influencing Community Credit Union members to vote for retaining the current not-for-profit structure of the credit union. At the June 15 special meeting, the Coalition tried to submit...
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - Piggybacking its success on shared branching, the Washington Credit Union League is moving ahead this month with using a $500,000 ad kitty for a new campaign pitching advocacy and membership as well as shared branching. The League characterized its voluntary ad and branding campaign as a...
WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Those proposed military base closings proposed last month by the U.S. Defense Department appear to have a silver lining for the $200 million Fort Belvoir Federal Credit Union here. Indeed, of all CUs impacted by the closings and troop realignments, Fort Belvoir acknowledges it is one of...
BISMARCK, N.D. - Not entirely unexpected, the North Dakota Credit Union League, caught in a bitter schism over its lobbying policies, is reversing course on allowing non-members to use its processing subsidiary in hopes of bringing trade group unity. The policy reversal, adopted by the League Board at a June...
FLINT, Mich. - Two trade groups representing automotive and firefighter credit unions are calling off their three-year-old experiment to hold joint annual meetings. While the original concept was seen as a novel means of cutting hotel and meeting expense, the interests of the two groups-the Combined Council of Automotive Credit...

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