MADISON, Wis. - Linda Johnson, wife of CUES President/CEO Fred Johnson, died on Feb. 14 from complications of lung cancer. She battled the disease for over a year. She was one of the 10 to 15% of people who are diagnosed with lung cancer despite never smoking. Linda is survived...

WASHINGTON-CUNA President and CEO Dan Mica told Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) in a Feb. 8 letter on his updated regulatory relief matrix that his organization would still like to see a few more relief measures in Crapo's long-awaited legislation. A risk-based capital system and expanded business lending powers were the...

Who are phishers' favorite targets? Financial institutions of course. The statistics below from Visa show that financial institutions account for 80% of phishing attacks. Visa, as the most popular card brand, is affected in two ways - corporate attacks on Visa itself and attacks on its card issuing institutions.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - After experiencing "unprecedented" growth over the past few years, the Credit Union Mortgage Alliance Network (CUMAnet) has decided it will return $1 million in surplus funds to its three owners - Affinity FCU, Greater Alliance FCU, and Proponent FCU. CUMAnet Chair Jerry D'Ambrosio said the CUSO...

WASHINGTON - Victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita or Wilma wishing to claim disaster-related losses on their prior year federal income tax return will now have until October 16, 2006, to make this choice, the Internal Revenue Service announced Feb. 14. Taxpayers suffering disaster-related losses in certain areas of Florida, Alabama,...

WASHINGTON-Legislation to modernize the FDIC and update its coverage limits was signed into law Feb. 8. President George W. Bush signed The Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005, which included the deposit insurance reform legislation, according to CUNA Legislative Affairs Manager Linda Haer. The bill allows the FDIC to...

ORLANDO, Fla. - The new year is only two months old, but dealership representatives attending the 2006 NADA convention got a peak at the forecasts for new-car sales for the year from the association's chief economist Paul Taylor. Taylor forecasts new-vehicle sales this year will hit 16.8 units. That's down...

Studio 109 Designs, LLC, an architectural and engineering firm providing sole services to design/build firm PWCampbell, has named Susan Myers logistics manager. DEI Incorporated, a design/build firm, has named Tom Delaney, John Cox and Ken Fannin site managers; Bruce Ihrig project manager; Donna Schwab project estimator; and Denise Reidenbach first...