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"uri": "/2002/08/20/fec-opens-investigation-of-mbnas-477000-loan-to-moran/",
"title": "FEC opens investigation of MBNA's $477,000 loan to Moran",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - In response to a complaint from a predominantly conservative watchdog group, the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has opened an investigation into Representative James Moran's (D-Va.) $477,000 loan from MBNA, a noted purchaser of credit unions' card portfolios and major card issuer. In early July The Washington Post reported...",
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"summary": "Fiscal Credit Union, Glendale, Calif. employees have participated in the Great Graffiti Paint Out, which is the largest volunteer city clean up effort in Glendale. Over 15 coworkers, family members and friends joined CU employees in the clean up effort. GECU, El Paso, Texas, has raised more than $40,504 for...",
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"summary": "AUSTIN, Texas - Beginning in September 2002, Texas credit unions will pay their annual operating fee assessments based on a semi-annual installment schedule, rather than being billed once a year in September at the start of the fiscal year. The rule implementing the payment change was adopted in August 2001,...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - NAFCU Services Corp. has selected Xacta as its preferred partner for enterprise risk management (ERM). Xacta's ERM solutions aid CUs in safeguarding member information through a proactive approach that is in compliance with Gramm-Leach-Bliley, NCUA's Part 748, and national and internationals information security standards (BS ISO/IEC 17799.) \"As...",
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"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Account aggregation has taken a lot of blows recently in surveys and among analysts, and while many CUs still say the intangibles of the product are well worth the costs, adoption rates are pitifully low at many CUs. Some CUs say they're pleased that they...",
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"summary": "LOS ANGELES - Hubert Hoosman Jr. and Bert Beal put on the boxing gloves, climbed into the ring and slugged it out for several rounds. The gloves were real. The ring was the Grand Ballroom of the Radisson Wilshire Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The punches and jabs they traded...",
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"title": "NAFCU looking to grow PAC fund which has long been dwarfed by CULAC",
"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va.-NAFCU's political action committee (PAC) fund has long been overshadowed by its larger stepsister, the Credit Union Legislative Action Council of CUNA (CULAC), but NAFCU's government affairs department is looking to increase its financial presence on Capitol Hill. According to Erica Anderson, NAFCU associate director of political affairs, the...",
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"title": "Beware of putting too much security pressure on IT staff",
"summary": "EDISON, N.J. - An IT staff may be good at launching and developing new technology systems, but in most cases security is not its forte, said Rachelle McLure, national director of solutions at security firm RCG Information Technology. \"You can't do it all. I think when you get into the...",
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"title": "Playing up to kids in branches can give credit unions an edge with their older, affluent members",
"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Looking at your member demographics and think you know who has kids? Well don't be so sure. \"Yesterday's `Ozzie and Harriet' or `Father Knows Best' definition of family has changed and evolved into grandma taking care of grandkids or a sister taking care of the...",
"byline": "Myriam DiGiovanni",
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"uri": "/2002/08/20/as-trade-groups-and-cus-grow-so-do-salaries/",
"title": "As trade groups and CUs grow, so do salaries",
"summary": "There are certain subjects that traditionally have been taboo for discussion in polite circles-politics, religion, and sex. Add to the list salaries. Most people are sensitive about salaries, especially their own. Those making big bucks especially prefer to keep their paychecks confidential. If and when salary information does become available,...",
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"title": "Protecting CU access to CDFI priority for Rosenthal tenure",
"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Twenty-two credit unions, and the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (NFCDCU), together received millions of dollars from the Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) fund this year, and Clifford Rosenthal, NFCDCU's executive director and newly elected chairman of the CDFI coalition, said protecting credit...",
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"title": "Account takeover, hacker break-ins most common security threats to credit unions",
"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - Credit unions better be wary of account takeover and hacker break-ins if they want to maintain members' trust. According to Roger Nettie, risk specialist for CUNA Mutual, these are the two biggest information security issues CUNA Mutual is seeing. In the account takeover scenario, someone presents themselves...",
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"title": "CDCUs, NFCDCU get $5 million in CDFI funds this year",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - The Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI) has awarded individual credit unions, as well as the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (NFCDCU $5 million in funding in fiscal year 2002. In addition to the previously reported $2 million award to the NFCDCU...",
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"title": "Information security takes a back seat to no other IT initiative at Orange County Teachers FCU",
"summary": "SANTA ANA, Calif. - Nancy Powers says credit unions have to find that happy medium between being too secure and giving members what they want online. Powers, VP of IS Operations for the $3.5 billion Orange County Teachers FCU, said if a CU is overly secure its members are going...",
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"summary": "MIAMI - Four South Florida credit unions are joining together to form South Florida Acceptance Corp., an indirect lending CUSO. The CUSO will be made up of Tropical Financial CU, Power 1 CU, City and County CU of Fort Lauderdale, and Pam-Am Horizons FCU. Together the CUs command about $1...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Did check usage peak in the mid-1990s? Newly released numbers from the Federal Reserve System correcting earlier released data suggest this may be the case and if so, that check writing in the U.S. may be steadily giving way to electronic forms of payment. In a revised Retail...",
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"summary": "BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - While credit unions in their neighboring state of Wisconsin planned to return to the strategy table to discuss their tactic for reintroducing a modernized credit union bill after three failed attempts at passage, credit union staff and volunteers met with members of the Minnesota Department of Commerce...",
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"summary": "ATLANTA - Known still to many credit unions as a check printer, the market the company started out in more than 70 years ago, John H. Harland Company through a string of acquisitions over the past several years has evolved and broadened its product and service offerings. Harland Financial Solutions,...",
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"summary": "BOSTON - The $143 million Centers for Disease Control Federal Credit Union and the $20 million Professional Golfers Association Credit Union have both sold their credit card portfolios to MBNA, Kessler Financial Services announced today. CDC FCU is based in Atlanta, Georgia and PGA CU is based in Palm Beach...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Unlike their federal credit union counterparts that will have the choice, should the SEC decide not to extend CUSOs' broker/dealer exemptions, of whether to license their CUSOs or roll the securities services' back under the credit union umbrella, state chartered credit unions may not have the same...",
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"summary": "DURHAM, N.C. - Three years after the state passed its landmark anti-predatory lending legislation, Gov. Michael F. Easley took particular pleasure on August 13 announcing that, \"the first anti-predatory lending law in the country is working.\" Easley was part of a panel of seven that met to discuss the results...",
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"summary": "TAMPA, Fla. - One size does not fit all when it comes to security. Dan Juneau, SVP for information security firm CastleGarde said security is a process not a product and credit unions should be wary of cookie cutter products. \"People are spending thousands of dollars on policy templates that...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Misperceptions about the relative risk and costs of so-called loyalty or benefits programs have prevented many credit unions that issue cards from adding them, said credit union card experts. But increasing competition from other credit card issuers has helped induce a growing number of institutions to offer...",
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"summary": "JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Credit Union Commission continues to deal with rounds of appeals filed by the Missouri Bankers Association and local banks challenging approvals by the Director of the Division of Credit Unions to credit unions to expand their fields of membership. Most recently, at its regular...",
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