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"title": "CDFCU Consortium Makes Low-Income Wage Earners Aware of EITC Benefits at Tax Time",
"summary": "NEW YORK - A consortium of four community development federal credit unions is reaching out and attempting to educate 50,000 low-income households - prior to the April 15 tax filing date - on the federal earned-income tax credit (EITC) benefit, while turning them away from fee-based tax preparers who offer...",
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"summary": "DENVER - SunCorp is making moves to reflect its new membership, and they're coming in the form of a new facility and new committee members. SunCorp completed two mergers in the last two years, one with Rocky Mountain Corporate and one with Nebraska Corporate Central, which just closed last October....",
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"summary": "DES MOINES, Iowa - Dr. Dennis Sharpe, the 14-year president/CEO of Educational Community CU, announced his plans to retire from the $29-million ECCU Feb. 1. ECCU's Board has selected Vice President Julie Bryant as Interim CEO. Sharpe has been president/CEO of ECCU since 1989. Among his other involvements, he's a...",
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"summary": "LATHAM, New York - The New York Credit Union League's convention in 2003 will focus on helping credit unions in New York identify and meet the needs of underserved communities and low-income members, according to Susan Landauer, senior vice president for member services for the league. \"We are planning speakers...",
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"summary": "Pacific Marine Credit Union, Oceanside, Calif. has presented one lucky winner the keys to a PT Cruiser as part of its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration. In addition to the car, PMCU gave away two Sony VAIO laptop computers, and a $5,000 travel voucher. Robert Harwood Jr. Robert, an active duty...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Callahan & Associates' preliminary year-end 2002 data is a mixed bag of news for credit unions. Loan growth for 2002 was greater than the previous year, but share growth for the year will come in slightly below 2001. Share growth in 2002 among the CUs that participated in...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - NASCUS sent Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) a list of six key recommendations in response to a request the association received from the chairman asking for NASCUS' list of legislative priorities for possible inclusion in new regulatory relief legislation in the 108th...",
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"summary": "WARRENVILLE, Ill. - Mid-States Corporate FCU and Minnesota Corporate FCU have stepped up the communication efforts to let members know where the merger stands. In addition to a series of town hall meetings in Minnesota, members of both corporates have received two letters on the progress so far. One letter...",
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"title": "Banking Groups Up in Arms as University of Iowa Community CU Moves Forward with Bank Purchase",
"summary": "IOWA CITY, Iowa - In spite of the ire of local banking groups here, the University of Iowa Community Credit Union's reasons for buying a 65-year old bank is motivated purely by synergies in operations and cost savings, say executives at both institutions. In a move that is being described...",
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"summary": "TAMPA, Fla.-NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz could not escape the frigid winter weather, even in Florida, which experienced unseasonably cold temperatures recently. She celebrated her first year of serving on the NCUA Board by addressing NAFCU's CEO meeting down in the Sunshine State. Matz praised the attendees for their help...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - CUNA hopes to release its nationwide survey of how credit unions are doing serving low-income members and communities at its 2003 Governmental Affairs Conference in Washington, according to CUNA's Chief Economist Bill Hampel. \"I met last week with the staff working on the project,\" Hampel said, \"and they...",
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"summary": "OVERLAND PARK, KS. - Roger Dick has joined U.S. Central as its new Director of Public Affairs/Communications. Dick fills a void left from Margaret Blankers, who left U.S. Central to start her own public relations firm. \"Oddly enough I do not have a financial services background. I came from Yellow...",
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"summary": "DULUTH, Ga. - Who says credit union marketing professionals can't make it to the top? Amy Fuller has been named Chief Operating Officer of Georgia Central Credit Union. Fuller joined the corporate in 1998 as Manager of Marketing. \"I think that fortunately in a corporate credit union of this size,...",
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"summary": "CLEVELAND, OHIO - Any credit unions looking to expand their members' access to surcharge free ATMs are more than welcome at Key Bank, a bank executive said. The $85 million Midwest based bank has signed up 22 credit unions in its Surcharge Free ATM Network last year and anticipates having...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-While the House Financial Services Committee has not made any decisions yet on the form of the regulatory relief legislation in the 108th Congress, lobbyists say it is unlikely to be separated into credit union and bank provisions. \"I don't believe that they have made a decision yet, but I...",
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"summary": "COLUMBIA, S.C. - The latest global hack attack may be remembered for snarling ATM services for the nation's largest bank, but it also slowed Internet banking to a crawl and even a halt at times for hundreds of credit unions over the weekend. The so-called \"SQL Slammer\" worm exploited a...",
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"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - So many of the people appearing in the pages of Credit Union Times are known for just one thing - the role they play in the credit union industry. But what happens when they're not conducting credit union business? In our new section, Beyond the...",
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"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - By all accounts, 2002 was a banner year for the mortgage industry, and credit unions' mortgage portfolios reflect that. But for all their mortgage originations processed last year, credit unions are still having difficulty increasing their share of the overall mortgage market beyond the 2-3%...",
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"summary": "BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - As bipartisanship continues to be one of the driving forces behind getting key legislation pushed through and passed, P.A. Mack set a precedent in the late 1970s when he served under both Democratic and Republican administrations at a time when credit unions were coming into their own....",
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"summary": "MERRIFIELD, Va.-The CEO of the largest credit union in the world has asked the Consumer Federation of America to reconsider its policy resolution regarding federal deposit insurance. CFA's current resolution simply states that all banks and savings and loans should be required to obtain federal deposit insurance. Navy Federal Credit...",
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