TEMPE, Ariz. - More than 140 "mom-and-pop" type businesses here may qualify for a new loan program created to offer financial relief during the city's light rail construction project. The Tempe Chamber of Commerce created the Asset Assistance Program, which allows businesses to tap into a $20,000 line of credit....

CARLISLE, Pa. - Another bank has signed on to an eight-month old business lending project in Cumberland County here. Omega Bank has joined $1 billion Members 1st Federal Credit Union and F&M Trust in the Cumberland Business First Loan Partnership Program, which was launched last June. All three financial institutions...

LENEXA, Kan. - Francis Lee officially arrived in the corner office at U.S. Central on Feb. 1. Lee, the former CEO of Southwest Corporate FCU, succeeds former U.S. Central CEO Dan Kampen, who resigned last year and has since formed a credit union consulting firm, The Rochdale Group. Southwest Corporate...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - OneBridge, the privately held card processing firm which used to be known as AmeriCard, has helped the $20 million Touchstone FCU to bring its card portfolio processing in-house. The move will give the Wilmington, Massachusetts credit union more control over member experiences and bottom-line growth. "The number...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Anyone or lives or works in Duval County is now eligible to join Seaboard Credit Union. After 77 years of exclusively serving employees of select business partners, Seaboard received approval from the State of Florida Office of Financial Regulations to expand its field-of-membership to include Duval County...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Consumers and small business owners in the North Bay area here are being encouraged to commit to a healthy financial outlook in 2006 with a "Healthy Start" checking account. The $1.3 billion Redwood Credit Union said for a limited time, when members or small business owners...

PHOENIX - Arizona Federal Credit Union has selected online risk management company Cyveillance to provide that company's anti-phishing solution to the credit union. This comes in response to a recent Federal Trade Commission report that names Arizona as a national hotspot for identity theft. With 22 branches and $1.7 billion...

HARTFORD, Conn.-NCUA Board Member Gigi Hyland told participants at the Connecticut Credit Union Association's Governmental Affairs Conference that credit unions need to define themselves and not allow the bankers or lawmakers to do it for them. "The window of opportunity is open, for a time, for credit unions to define...