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"summary": "NEW YORK -Actors Federal Credit Union is leaving its mark on the city that never sleeps - with ATMs. What started in 1999 with just two ATMs has grown exponentially, and the $72 million credit union now boasts 100 ATMs making it a contender in a market dominated by banking...",
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"summary": "ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Executives from PSCU Financial Services including President David Serlo and Chief Marketing Officer Brian Crawford will be touring Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles from mid-February through mid-March to meet with existing and prospective credit union members and discuss and promote the CUSO's new credit card,...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.- NCUA General Counsel Bob Fenner explained, in a Jan. 23, 2003 legal opinion letter, that NCUA plans to remove outdated reserving provisions from the member business lending rule at its March board meeting. In response to a letter NCUA received from FIG Federal Credit Union President and CEO...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Describing overdraft protection products as \"a deliberate, systemic attempt to hook consumers onto overdrafts as a form of high cost credit,\" the staff attorney for the National Consumer Law Center, along with the Consumer Federation of America and other national organizations sent the Federal Reserve Board a comment...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - NAFCU has sent a letter to NCUA recommending the agency strengthen its regulations in regards to federal preemption of state laws mandating credit card disclosures. Last year NAFCU joined a coalition of national banking groups, card issuers and CUNA to fight a California law that mandated credit...",
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"summary": "Bison Federal Credit Union, Shawnee, Oklahoma, has held an open house for its remodeled 5,000 square-foot main office. The new headquarters is part of the credit union's plan to better serve its members. United Federal Credit Union, Buchanan, Mich., has selected design/build firm DEI, Inc. to standardize its brand image...",
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"summary": "ROSEVILLE, Calif. - Deciding whether to obtain its own broker/dealer license is only one item on Addison Ave. Financial Partners' agenda for 2003. At press time, Addison Ave. President Pete Snyder had initiated a formal investigation in to whether it was feasible for the CUSO to become a licensed broker/dealer....",
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"summary": "CU Times Editor-in-Chief PHOENIX, Ariz. - A sluggish economy, loss of consumer confidence, corporate scandals, growing unemployment, and a likelihood of war with Iraq all took a toll in 2002 on investor confidence and Wall Street's performance. Financial services CUSOs have had to tweak the way they consult with their...",
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"summary": "HOUSTON - Shell Employees FCU has formed a CUSO to provide members with financial planning services. The credit union's new wholly-owned subsidiary, Signal Hill Financial Resources will offer tax preparation services and insurance products to the CU's 27,000 members, as well as to non-members who live or work in SEFCU's...",
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"summary": "MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. and HOUSTON- Colorful banners with the inscription `our hearts are with them' hang at Kennedy Space Center Federal Credit Union's nine branches to honor the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy on Feb. 1. As investigators continue to piece together shuttle...",
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"summary": "Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, Kingston, N.Y., Associate Vice President of Human Resources Judy Hamilton has recently earned certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources. The certification, awarded by the Human Resource Certification Institute represents extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience in human resource management. Army Aviation Center Federal...",
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"summary": "The article on the Latino Credit Union Project in Madison, Wis, (CU Times, Jan. 22) in which I was interviewed and quoted, is inaccurate and misleading. The headline is quite inaccurate and disturbing. There has never been, and never was, any dissent from within any of the organizations, board or...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Asserting that Congressional review of the District of Columbia's Home Loan Protection Act of 2002, as required by the District's Home Rule law, does not place the Act beyond the scope of the NCUA's preemptive powers, the D.C. Credit Union League has asked NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar to...",
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"summary": "DENVER - The Colorado Financial Services Board approved the adoption of several new regulations for state-chartered credit unions, effective Jan. 10, including granting SCCUs incidental powers parity with federal credit unions granted them by NCUA's Rules and Regulations Part 721. Under the state's new rule, a state-chartered credit union can...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-In its official comment letter regarding the definition of small credit unions, CUNA asked NCUA to consider a much higher ceiling than the agency proposed. The current definition of a small credit union for the purposes of the Regulatory Relief Act of 1980 is credit unions with less than $1...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-The Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (Extension) has named Erica Stevens-Tobe the national liaison to the credit union movement to aid the expansion of the National Endowment for Financial Education High School Financial Planning Program. Stevens-Tobe will represent the Extension in joint projects with CUNA...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-Even with a new makeup of the Congress, following numerous Republican victories, many of the issues the 108th Congress will tackle are the same ones dodged in the 107th. While House and Senate Republicans named their new committee members a few weeks back, the Democrats have just been getting around...",
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"summary": "GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo - Ask a member who uses a CUSO service the name of the CUSO, and the likelihood is they won't be able to tell you or even know the product isn't coming to them direct from their credit union. Should they be able to? NACUSO Director Tom...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Executives with the Credit Union 24 Network and the Star network are preparing for a \"prolonged\" effort to convince CU24's credit union shareholders to approve the network's sale to Concord EFS, Star's parent company. Star is a subsidiary of Concord. Concord and CU24 signed a letter of...",
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