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"uri": "/2003/07/01/all-sectors-describe-fcra-as-important-to-identity-theft-prevention-and-detection/",
"title": "All Sectors Describe FCRA as Important to Identity Theft Prevention and Detection",
"summary": "WASHINGTON-Debate on the reauthorization of the Fair Credit Reporting Act has heated up as congressional hearings wind down and rumors fly about the administration's position on the law. The House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee held its fifth hearing last week on FCRA, entitled \"Fighting Identity Theft - The...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-Several influential groups from inside and outside the beltway, as well as some large banks, have signed on to a letter urging the Senate to pass the Check Truncation Act of 2003, which the House passed unanimously earlier this month. CUNA and NAFCU, as well as NACHA, The Financial Services...",
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"title": "Educators Credit Union Finds its New Headquarters in Existing Building; Historic Districts Can Limit Facility Options",
"summary": "NASHVILLE - Think renovating a branch is easier than building a new one- guess again. \"The biggest myth out there is a lot of people think that because there is already a building there is not much cost associated with renovations,\" said Tom Lombardo vice president of St. Louis, Missouri...",
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"title": "Credit Unions Gearing Up for Fight Over Military Base Branch Closings",
"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Although they are not coordinating their efforts, a number of credit unions around the country which have relationships with military bases in their communities, are gearing up to help those bases avoid being closed or \"reconfigured\" as part of an upcoming Pentagon effort. Every few years since...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-The Independent Community Bankers of America expressed its strong support for Subchapter S Corporation expansion at a recent congressional hearing, stating that it will aid small businesses and boost the economy. Included among those small businesses helped by the legislation are community banks, which are hoping to expand the definition...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-The House Subcommittee hearing that bumped NCUA's monthly board meeting to the afternoon provided credit union industry representatives the opportunity to showcase the community's various efforts to bring more consumers into the financial mainstream. NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar told the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee last week about...",
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"title": "Navy FCU Tackles a Reorganization to Align CU Around Members, Not Products",
"summary": "VIENNA, Va. - How do you reorganize a 4,200-employee business with minimal confusion and upheaval and without laying anyone off? Brian McDonnell, president/CEO, Navy FCU faced that scenario last month when he reorganized the operations and support sides of the $18.5-billion credit union, and though by his own admission there...",
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"uri": "/2003/07/01/harland-financial-solutions-signs-on-1-billion-sefcu/",
"title": "Harland Financial Solutions Signs on $1 Billion SEFCU",
"summary": "ALTANTA - The $1 billion SEFCU, Albany, N.Y. has selected Harland Financial Solutions' ULTRADATA as its new core processing system. In addition to the ULTRADATA core system, the credit union has chosen to also acquire Harland Financial Solutions' integrated product line, including: the Financial Services Platform for teller, member service,...",
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"title": "FMSI Turning Teller Productivity, Branch Management into an Exact Science",
"summary": "ATLANTA - Since 1990 Financial Management Solutions, Inc. has been operating under the philosophy that to achieve optimum branch performance credit unions should focus on staffing according to when members need service in particular branches. \"As we travel around the country much of teller turnover is tied to other opportunities...",
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"uri": "/2003/07/01/members-benefit-cu-owned-trust-company-puts-critical-tools-in-members-hands/",
"title": "MEMBERS BENEFIT: CU-owned Trust Company puts Critical Tools in Members Hands",
"summary": "TAMPA, Fla. and MADISON, Wis. - Nearly two years after developing a business plan for an entity that would offer coast-to-coast trust services and convincing regulators that such an effort could be realized, credit unions in all 50 states will now have access to the first nationally-chartered trust company owned...",
"byline": "Michelle A. Samaad",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-The bulk of the largest political contributions from the Credit Union Legislative Action Council of CUNA went to Republicans during the month of May, still very early in the 2003-2004-election cycle. Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a House Judiciary Committee member; House Financial Services Committee member Ed Royce (R-Calif.), father of...",
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"summary": "REDMOND, Wash. and CALABASAS, Calif. - Open Financial Exchange gets closer all the time to becoming the standard for consumers to download financial data over the Web. Microsoft and Digital Insight Corp. said they are joining forces to streamline the adoption of OFX with Money, Microsoft's personal financial management (PFM)...",
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"summary": "COLUMBUS, Ohio - Nationwide Retirement Solutions is making a couple of key changes in its retirement education efforts - alterations offering pointers credit unions may want to keep in mind as they plan pre-retirement programs for their members. NRS, a subsidiary of Nationwide Financial, is one of the country's leading...",
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"summary": "PRINCETON, N.J.- Credit unions may not trust bankers, but consumers trust their banks. Banks came fifth place among 15 basic American institutions in public confidence, according to new Gallup Poll News Service data. Half of 1,029 adults surveyed said they had a \"great deal\" or \"quite a lot\" of confidence...",
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"summary": "NEW YORK - The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions is launching a new effort to help its member credit unions reach out to people with disabilities in their fields-of-membership and to help all credit unions better understand and serve what it says is a significantly underserved population. The...",
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"title": "Vehicle Auctions Can Maximize the Value of CUs' Repossessed Cars - If Done Right",
"summary": "LAS VEGAS - It's a fact of life for credit unions that make auto loans - sometimes they have to repossess members' vehicles. That makes for another challenge for credit unions - how can they maximize the value of repossessed vehicles to regain as much collateral as possible, especially in...",
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"summary": "HALES CORNER, Wis. - The $2 billion Corporate Central CU has added a business development manager for its Minnesota operations. Mary Krogram is the corporate's new point person in Minnesota. Prior to joining the corporate, she worked for eight years for the Financial Services division of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve...",
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"summary": "AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Eleven credit unions down under are now participating in a new Internet banking product that allows their members to go online to do a number of banking services. The service was developed by the New Zealand Association of Credit Unions (NZACU). The new system allows participating...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-High-ranking Financial Services Committee members recently wrote NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar for his opinion on alternative forms of capital for credit unions and their inclusion in the definition of \"net worth.\" \"For the last couple of years, many in the credit union industry have been seeking legislative changes allowing federally...",
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"summary": "SACRAMENTO, Calif. - State workers who could soon find themselves without a paycheck due to the California Legislature failing to adopt a budget by the July 1 mandated deadline, are being offered some assistance by Sacramento-area credit unions. No-interest emergency loans are being offered to credit union members from at...",
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"summary": "ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md. - Growing up in a small town in Alabama, Martin Breland lived where major cities were four or five hours apart. Today he's president/CEO of Tower Federal Credit Union in the bustling Baltimore-Washington corridor - and he likes it just fine, thank you. \"We enjoy Maryland a...",
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"summary": "PORTLAND, Ore. - A wine auction sponsored by Clark County School Employees Credit Union Vancouver, Washington, and Financial Service Centers Cooperative, Inc. has helped raise $40,000 for Credit Unions for Kids. The wine auction is part of the Oregon/Southwest Washington Credit Unions for Kids $1 million-dollar pledge to Doernbecher Children's...",
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