WASHINGTON - Military-linked credit unions were girding for "better or worse" last week as the U.S. Defense Department was preparing to finally disclose the proposed base closing list as recommended by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission. "Many of us will be relieved-some will be disappointed and others will be...
FORT WORTH, Tex. - Citing its national track record in operating airport ATM facilities, American Airlines Federal Credit Union, joined by a small minority CU in Dallas, has landed the ATM concession at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. The airline CU called the five-year contract a coup since it allows the...
OMAHA, Neb. - Trying to expand the public profile for credit unions, the Nebraska Credit Union League has doubled its budget for co-op ads this year and contends the expense for several flights of radio ads is paying off in higher awareness. "We've stood back for quite a while now...
INDIANAPOLIS - Bigger than ever, the Indiana Credit Union League's reliance this month on eBay, the online auction service, to raise funds for Credit Unions for Kids has now become a worldwide event and "doing good things for the credit union message." That was the word from the League as...
LAFAYETTE, Calif. - Pat Wagner, a long-time champion of small credit unions and a former chairman of the California Credit Union League, is retiring next month. The 56-year-old Wagner, a former CEO of the old $8.5 million New World FCU here which has since merged into the $500 million Telesis...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With an eye on new business, Kentucky credit unions apparently are getting the first sampling of how that mega-merger of Bank One and JPMorgan Chase plays out in one of the nation's biggest bank "makeovers." "Every time we see mergers like this, we always find bank customers...
SIOUX FALLS, S. D. - The South Dakota Credit Union League, which more than a year ago courted a failed consolidation with the North Dakota League, has hired Peter Henthorn, a Boulder, Colo. businessman, as its new president/CEO effective June 5. Henthorn, owner of a consulting firm which has been...
BISMARCK, N.D. - Appealing to her peers, the president of the $150 million Capital Credit Union, the state's second largest, has urged CUs angry over a restrictive, new field of membership law to remain "in the credit union family" and avoid taking any drastic steps like converting to a mutual...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - The California Credit Union League said last week 30 of its 417 credit union members have now resigned from the League opting out of mandatory participation in its $6 million advocacy campaign. "Well, I'd say it's disconcerting to have even one resignation but given where we...
PLYMOUTH, Mich. - On the drawing boards for nearly eight months, the Michigan Credit Union League is launching its most ambitious co-op advertising campaign ever with a goal of cementing "protection from banker attacks" while also pushing a branding theme with a harder edge on the CU difference from banks....

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