BATON ROUGE, La. - Persons running for president previously had to pay the $750 qualifying fee in Louisiana in cash or with a bank certified or cashier's check, but an amendment would allow that fee to be written on a credit union check or money order. The Senate Governmental Affairs...

MADISON, Wis. - As the job market and economy bounce back, credit unions might see 2004's membership grow nearly double that of last year's 1.1% rate, according to an updated economic forecast from CUNA. Economic growth will eventually allow the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates, forcing credit unions...

PORT NECHES, Texas - Andrea Johnson remembers when members could walk into any given credit union and get a $200 loan to buy school clothes for their kids. Today, she says those loans are more trouble than they're worth for some larger credit unions, forcing some members to the whims...

WEST JORDAN, Utah - Mountain America Credit Union is the latest to launch a trust services division with plans to form a network with other credit unions seeking to offer estate management to its members. After more than a year of planning including discussions with other trust companies and alliances...

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Of XCU Capital Corp.'s 42,000 retail clients, it doesn't come as a surprise that not a single trust service relationship has been established with any of them since the credit union-owned broker dealer partnered with Phoenix National Trust in November 2002. Mark Allen, president/CEO of XCU Capital...

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Attorney General Greg Stumbo here recently filed suit seeking restitution for Kentuckians who invested in phony CDs with fake ties to the legitimate Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union. On March 10, Stumbo said Robert A. Halcombe of Michigan, and Dover Holland, of Alabama were named as defendants...

MELBOURNE, Fla. - The decision of $1 billion Space Coast Credit Union to revamp its SCCU Investment Services by bringing management in house rather than rely on outsourcing has proven to be a financially sound one. For nearly a year, four of the investment subsidiary's financial advisors have been meeting...

TUKWILA, Wash. - With a year of legwork behind it, BECU Trust Co. is poised to turn its marketing plans up a notch in an effort to woo new clients, particularly more of the 300,000 members from $4 billion Boeing Employees' Credit Union. Launched last April by Boeing Financial Services,...