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"summary": "MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - St. Mary's Credit Union has helped save a parade. The $393 million credit union has donated $15,000 to ensure the 52nd annual Marlborough Labor Day Holiday Parade, which carries the title \"A Community Together Making a Difference\", goes off without a hitch. Under financial pressure this year,...",
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"summary": "California Credit Union League Coalition Against Hunger San Francisco Chapter, has recently been honored by the Apple Corps for its efforts to volunteer at the San Francisco Food Bank on a regular basis. The Marketing Association of Credit Unions, Walnut Creek, Calif., has named Educational Employees Credit Union Vice President...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Two independent sources within the credit union community who asked to remain anonymous have confirmed that rumors are surfacing that the nomination of the next NCUA Board member is imminent. Both sources said they expected the president to make a nomination to the NCUA Board as early as last...",
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"summary": "NEENAH, Wis. - Ever since it was formed three years ago, Business Lending Group has been content to be a small, regional company. That strategy hasn't changed even though the CUSO that was formed three years ago to provide business lending services to the members of three credit unions has...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - While convenience, particularly office location, is the factor cited most often by consumers in selecting a checking provider, credit union members want more. A recent Filene Research Institute study titled Marketing Checking Accounts to Members: A Guide for CUs finds that households with checking services only at...",
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"summary": "SALT LAKE CITY - Add Deseret First Credit Union to the growing list of state-chartered credit unions in Utah that are converting to a federal charter. The $266 million Salt Lake CU, the sixth largest credit union in the state and whose international membership includes the Mormon church, said it...",
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"title": "`More Can Be Done' for Small CUs, Argues Advocate in Ore. League",
"summary": "WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Georgene Arbon, CEO of the $12.5 million Rite Choice FCU here, admits she doesn't mind being called a vocal or an opinionated advocate for small credit unions in the Northwest, many of which she contends are engaged in a constant struggle for survival coping with meager and/or...",
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"summary": "ATLANTA - Credit Union Service Centers, the shared branching network based in Atlanta, has added two new credit unions to its list. The $138 million Marriott Employees FCU, based in Bethesda, Maryland, and the $320 million Dupaco Community Credit Union, based in Dubuque, Iowa, have linked up to the network...",
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"title": "CU Members More Apt to Use Uninsured Accounts When They Have the Facts",
"summary": "MADISON, Wis.-When credit union members are better informed about uninsured accounts, they are more likely to use them, a recent Filene Research Institute study found. \"In the last few years, a number of credit unions have expressed concern about the lack of alternative sources of capital,\" the study, Uninsured Accounts:...",
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"title": "Aside from Having to Attend an Early Bird Meeting at the White House, NCUA Unscathed by Blackout",
"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - The massive blackout didn't have any major effects on NCUA. The agency sent some staffers to a meeting of the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee at the White House at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, August 15. The meeting participants, who included other federal financial regulators, reported...",
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"title": "SecureWorks Named to CIO 100 List of Efficient Tech Firms",
"summary": "ATLANTA - SecureWorks, an Internet security firm whose clients include a number of credit unions, is a 2003 winner of the CIO 100 awards from Chief Information Officer magazine. SecureWorks was recognized along with such firms as Dell, FedEx and General Electric for \"demonstrating resourceful use of technology and related...",
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"summary": "PALO ALTO, Calif. - eCU Technologies, a CUSO of Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union, will be marketing an account aggregation solution from Teknowledge Corp. under an agreement announced this week. eCU Technologies will offer TekPortal Financial Suites as an ASP or on-site solution and the license will include TekPortal's OFX...",
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"summary": "OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - CNBS runs a lean operation when it comes to brokerage firms, but rapid growth on the fee side of its business has caused it to add staff over the last year and it will now add office space. At this time last year it had 20...",
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"summary": "BALTIMORE - CUSO representatives from around the country will meet Sept. 25-27 at the Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel for NACUSO's 2003 Fall Leadership Roundtable. Among the topics attendees can expect will be covered during the three-day conference are: a review of the new business lending regulations for CUSOs; discussions on...",
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"title": "First Flight for RDS ATM Security Update a Safe Landing for Jet CU",
"summary": "INDIANAPOLIS - re:Member Data Services (RDS) has begun upgrading client ATMs with the new Triple DES security standards required by card issuers including Visa and MasterCard. The first installation was at an ATM belonging to $27 million Jet Credit Union in RDS' hometown of Indianapolis. The installation required Jet to...",
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"summary": "ALBANY, N.Y. - CU Business Group, a business services CUSO co-owned by three corporate credit unions -Empire Corporate, FirstCorp, and Northwest Corporate - said that in less than one year of opening it has hit the $50 million mark in business loans processed. \"Loan packages are much larger than we...",
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"summary": "GREENSBORO, N.C. - It's difficult for Elizabeth \"Sis\" Hamilton to know what she'll do on Tuesday, Sept. 2. For the past 60 years, she's spent her weekdays working in the credit union industry - or more accurately, at one credit union. But the 78-year old Hamilton, president/CEO of Summit CU...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - Stanford Federal Credit Union Vice President of Administration Mike Hillard brings his philosophy of \"talk it out\" to his position as chair of CUNA's Human Resources and Training and Development Council and chuckles that his hide has been saved many a time \"simply by maintaining a dialogue.\"...",
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"summary": "BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Camellia State was recently ranked by an economic and business expert as being one of the top five states in the U.S. for small businesses, and the Alabama Credit Union League wants to be there to leverage that reputation and provide small businesses with the products...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar responded recently to questions posed by top financial services lawmakers regarding the problems with the current Prompt Corrective Action system and credit unions' use of secondary capital. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Mike Oxley (R-Ohio), Ranking Member Barney Frank (D-Mass.), and committee member Brad Sherman...",
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"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Power outages like those experienced in the Midwest and Northeast on August 14 may have many credit unions running out to buy generators, but facility experts advise caution. \"The moral to draw from the recent blackouts is what expense a credit union wants to incur,\"...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Although CUNA Mutual estimates that the incidence of robbery at the nation's credit unions will be lower this year than in recent years, a credit union somewhere in the country is still robbed almost every day, and some individual robberies are so tragic that they raise the...",
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"summary": "LATHAM, N.Y. - Arguing that the Prompt Corrective Action system, enacted with H.R. 1151, unfairly penalizes credit unions by giving them all the same capital risk profile and works to the detriment of members, the New York State Credit Union League is kicking its efforts up a notch to convince...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The month of July saw 30 credit union mergers, the highest number in more than a year, according to NCUA monthly data. Of the mergers that took place last month, 13 credit unions that closed their doors had less than $1 million in assets, nine between $1 million and...",
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"summary": "PLANO, Texas - A great way to get employees to sell members on products is to give them incentives to do so. That's just what a new cross-sell product from Fiserv's most recently acquired credit union data processing subsidiary - Credit Union Industry Group (formerly the EDS CU division) -...",
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