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"uri": "/2003/02/18/teachers-federal-credit-union-grows-despite-intense-competition-from-area-banks/",
"title": "Teachers Federal Credit Union Grows Despite Intense Competition From Area Banks",
"summary": "FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. - President/CEO Robert Allen glances out the window of his office at Teachers Federal Credit Union and counts. \"There are three banks within sight of my office,\" he reports. \"One prides itself on being open seven days a week. We're open a full six days a week.\" That's...",
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"summary": "NASHVILLE - NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz stressed the need for credit unions to familiarize themselves with what their senior members want. During a recent address to the Tennessee Credit Union League, Matz reminded credit unions that there is an abundance of opportunity for them by serving their silver-haired membership....",
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"uri": "/2003/02/18/tax-credit-for-individual-development-accounts-could-benefit-credit-unions/",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Credit unions that implement individual development accounts (IDA) programs may be eligible for a $550 annual tax credit. The Senate Finance Committee has approved the tax section of the Charity Aid, Recovery, and Development Act of 2003, which allows financial institutions a tax credit for each IDA account...",
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"summary": "HOUSTON - For years, John Floyd suggests, bank customers who know senior VPs by name and golf with the bank president have enjoyed overdraft privileges. If a preferred customer writes a check without enough money on deposit to cover it, the bank honors the check, Floyd says. The bank then...",
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"uri": "/2003/02/18/kansas-league-seeks-10-dues-hike-in-04/",
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"summary": "TOPEKA, Kan. - Citing rising salaries and costs, the Kansas Credit Union Association is proposing a 10% dues hike for next year, its first such increase in seven years. The proposal, which sets up a new formula using CUs' assets instead of gross revenue for the dues base, also has...",
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"title": "Four New Socially Responsible Investment Mutual Funds Available",
"summary": "CAMBRIDGE, Ontario Canada, - Meritas Financial Inc. announced the launch of four new socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds that will be available through Group Retirement Services, a division of Great-West Life Assurance Company and London Life Insurance Company. The funds include one balanced fund and three equity funds. Of...",
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"summary": "Educational Employees Credit Union, Fresno, Calif., and its subsidiary, Educators Financial & Insurance Services have donated $1,000 to the Central California Forum on Refugee Affairs. The donation will be used this year to provide scholarships for deserving students. Only students who are a member of one of the communities served...",
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"uri": "/2003/02/18/subchapter-s-bill-introduced-in-house/",
"title": "Subchapter S Bill Introduced in House",
"summary": "WASHINGTON-Representative Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) recently introduced the Small Business and Financial Institutions Tax Relief Act of 2003 (H.R. 714), which expands the number and type of shareholders for banks and companies electing Subchapter S corporation status. McInnis' bill increases the number of shareholders for Subchapter S corporations from 75 to...",
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"uri": "/2003/02/18/ncua-issues-guidance-for-credit-unions-on-possible-terrorist-threat/",
"title": "NCUA Issues Guidance for Credit Unions on Possible Terrorist Threat",
"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA recently issued an information bulletin (03-002) providing credit unions guidance for developing protective measures in the heightened terrorist threat condition. On Friday, Feb. 7, the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security ratcheted up the threat level from `elevated' (yellow) to `high' (orange). Aside from posting Financial and...",
"byline": "Sarah Snell Cooke",
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"title": "Michigan Works! Program Offers Solution to NSF Woes: Earn It Back",
"summary": "LANSING, Mich. - \"It opens a door.\" That's how Jill Abendroth describes Earn It Back, which links Capital Area Michigan Works! with Capital Community Credit Union in an effort to help people who have bounced checks or failed to promptly pay NSF transactions re-establish their personal finances. Abendroth, CCCU community...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-The House Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman Richard Baker (R-La.), held a hearing last week on the effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the nation's financial institutions and markets. Representatives from the General Accounting Office, Securities and Exchange Commission, NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, Securities...",
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"uri": "/2003/02/18/tax-refunds-could-be-headed-to-cu-savings-accounts/",
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"summary": "ISLANDIA, N.Y.-Less than one-quarter of Americans receiving a tax refund this year would spend or invest their refund checks from President George W. Bush's tax cut package, according to the Cambridge Consumer Credit Index. Of more than 1,000 adults polled nationwide this month by ICR/International Communications Research, 18% said they...",
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"title": "Ohio CUs Plug into Latino Community with Education Program",
"summary": "COLUMBUS, Ohio - With an emphasis on better serving the Hispanic community, Ohio credit unions have kicked off a Latino Financial Literacy Program. For the second year, OhioHealth CU, Telhio CU Inc., and Western CU Inc., have joined with the Ohio Credit Union Foundation to sponsor the financial literacy program,...",
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"title": "SECU of North Carolina Expands Salary Advance Loan Program to Encourage Saving",
"summary": "RALEIGH, N.C. - State Employees Credit Union has expanded its two-year old Salary Advance Loan Program (SALO), the credit union's low-cost alternative to payday lenders' services, to include a savings program SECU says \"will allow members a better opportunity to break the payday-to-payday borrowing cycle.\" SECU introduced SALO in January...",
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"title": "Vanguard Group Becomes Largest Mutual Fund Company",
"summary": "VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - Vanguard Group has edged Fidelity Investments to become the nation's biggest mutual-fund company. According to Competitrack Inc., an advertising tracking firm, Vanguard spent more than any other company on mutual-fund advertising. Vanguard has nearly half a trillion dollars in stock and bond funds and is \"one...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The bill working its way through the Utah State legislature to tax that state's largest credit unions would directly impact Utah's credit unions, but its effect - or the effect of any similar bill in another state - on the balance of the dual chartering system could...",
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"summary": "\"Last year's bill and the one that will be reintroduced this year contain a business provision for thrifts that sets their business lending cap at 20%. I think (House Financial Services Committee Chairman Mike Oxley (R-Ohio)) is sympathetic to the idea that differing levels is something that needs to be...",
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"summary": "Lifetime Savings Accounts (LSA) * Can be used for any type of savings. * Allows savers of any age and income to contribute up to $7,500 each year. * Unlimited, penalty-free withdrawals. * Contributions not deductible. * Not required to document qualified expenses. Retirement Savings Account (RSA) * Can only...",
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"title": "CUNA Network Services Seeks $3.5 Million More in Capital as it Looks to Break Even; Staying Focused on Security Products",
"summary": "TAMPA, Fla. - Having just completed its first full year in business CUNA Network Services has yet to break even, but it's reporting increased revenue and hopes to be in the black by early 2004. The company, formed in July of 2001 by the combination of Sunstar IP Communications (a...",
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"summary": "AUSTIN, Texas - Texas credit unions can expect the elimination of the sales tax currently levied on transactions at Texas Credit Union Service Centers, according to Carol Keeton Strayhorn, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Previously, service center transactions were considered taxable as data processing by the comptroller's office. The unexpected...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - The recently-proposed retirement accounts by Pres. Bush aim to eliminate the bowl of \"confusing alphabet soup\" and the \"endless maze of confusing rules,\" the U.S. Treasury touted shortly after the president's proposals were made in January. At issue are the creation of several new accounts that do away...",
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"summary": "NEW YORK - CU24, which is in the midst of a merger with Concord, had many suitors, among them NYCE and PULSE. According to an authoritative source with New York-based NYSE Network, NYCE made a $40 million bid for CU24, $10 million more than the bid Concord reportedly offered. The...",
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"summary": "HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - There's been a changing of the guard at Credit Union Affiliates of New Jersey, and credit unions in the state-especially the larger ones-are taking a wait-and-see attitude on whether the change in leadership will spell what many describe as much-needed, overdue change in direction for CUANJ. The...",
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"title": "Credit Unions Should Think Ethnic, not Just Hispanic Marketing",
"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Want your ethnic marketing strategies to succeed? Then make becoming a part of the culture and community the main priority. \"You have to culturally be there,\" said Credit Union ONE President/CEO Armando Cavazos. \"If you think you're going in with a surface-only marketing blitz, it...",
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"title": "Washington State First: Numerica CU Approved by SBA to Offer 7(a) Loans",
"summary": "SPOKANE, Wash. - January was a month of notable firsts for Numerica Credit Union. Becoming an authorized SBA 7(a) lender was just one of the credit union's achievements. Numerica CU has been involved with commercial real estate lending on a limited basis since 1988. VP of Lending Gene Fitzpatrick explained...",
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