Credit Union Management

The $595 million Member One Federal Credit Union is a lead sponsor of a run-walk event that will be an inaugural fundraiser for a new organization created to help wounded veterans in the Roanoke, Va., area.

The Credit Union Association of New York will be holding its first Economic Forum Nov. 1-2 in Albany, N.Y., at the Desmond Hotel & Conference Center. The event, which is open to attendees from multiple states, aims to provide credit union leaders with information on business strategy, economics and investing.

Orion Federal Credit Union in Memphis, Tenn., has become the largest client running the KeyStone core processing platform from Corelation Inc. after a Labor Day weekend conversion.

COCC said the $381 million, 75,000-member Peoples Credit Union of Middletown, R.I., plans to convert to a new core processing platform from the Avon, Conn., service bureau.

Hours after the Navy destroyer USS Cole was bombed in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000, killing 17 American sailors and injuring 39, the families of members of Navy Federal Credit Union likely didnt know that much more was going on behind the scenes on their behalf.

If there was ever an argument that member business lending is good for credit unions, its in the state of North Dakota.