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"summary": "The Treasury Department's authorities and responsibilities cover a wide spread of issues. Under its authority are Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Mint; Customs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and the Secret Service; as well as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; and the Office of...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - \"The Coming Crash in the Housing Market\" by John R. Talbott warns rising interest rates will cut the value of many homes because potential buyers simply won't be able to afford them. Does this mean credit union members will be forced out of the housing market and credit...",
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"summary": "Despite hectic schedules and packed days, credit union CEOs do occasionally take the time to enjoy themselves at the movies. Tastes range from family fun features to musicals and comic books come to life. Here's just a sample of what they are watching: Recent three films- Terminator 3, Pirates of...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The NCUA Board is scheduled to address credit unions' usury cap at its July board meeting. The cap is currently set at 18%, but NCUA must reevaluate it every 18 months (by September 9) or it will slip back down to the 15% statutory level contained in the Federal...",
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"title": "Iowa City CU Sees its First Commercial Loan Paying Off",
"summary": "IOWA CITY, Iowa - Within weeks of hiring a commercial lending officer in 2001, the University of Iowa Community CU stepped up to save an ambitious residential development in the college town, lending the developer $690,000 when no other lender in the area would step up. That gave UICCU's infant...",
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"summary": "TROY, Mich. - GalaxyPlus Credit Union Systems recent Annual Client Conference at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas attracted over 400 people. New products and services were on display, including a call center solution, paperless receipts, drivers license scanning and courtesy pay overdrafting. \"GalaxyPlus is continually developing revenue-generating products for...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary John Snow is scheduled to testify Sept. 4 in front of the House Financial Services Committee on the regulatory structure of the housing government sponsored enterprises Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Committee members are expected will ask Snow to comment on suggestions that regulation of the...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON -The Fannie Mae Foundation, a major source of charitable and economic development funding, has published a series of case studies that highlights different programs offered by five credit unions around the country. The Foundation published the studies to highlight best financial practices from financial institutions around the nation. These...",
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"summary": "The Friday night game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees will have a 7:05 p.m. start, but first NAFCU has to feed everybody. The pre-game meal will be at Jillian's, a \"typical eat and play place\" said NAFCU EVP Diane Swenson, who did much of the planning...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - NAFCU Services Corp.'s Preferred Provider program continues to expand with 18 companies now partnering with NSC. NSC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NAFCU. NSC President Keith Nolan thinks of NSC as NAFCU's CUSO. \"I need to find how to add value back to the parent company, and...",
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"summary": "HARVEY, Louisiana -Recently passed legislation by the Louisiana legislature now mandates financial education be included in high schools' curriculum. But JPSB Employees CU has had a head start in helping facilitate this by operating the only student-run credit union branch in the state for the past seven years. \"Student branches...",
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"summary": "ATLANTA - Delta Employees CU, the largest credit union in Georgia, has reached an agreement to use CU National Mortgage to implement the Prime Alliance mortgage solution on the $2.4-billion credit union's Web site. \"Our members work in all time zones, live all across the country, and expect premier service...",
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"summary": "CHATSWORTH, Calif. - From the very beginning, Telesis Community Credit Union intended its wholly-owned member business lending CUSO, Telesis Partnerships, LLC, founded five years ago would become a national CUSO. Now that it has become one, CUSO experts say it's indicative of what's happening on the CUSO scene. In June,...",
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"summary": "This record 128-page Special NAFCU Annual Conference issue of Credit Union Times is chock a block with all sorts of stories and features. The following guide is here to help readers find what they want (there's something for everybody!) in this blockbuster issue. Beyond the Job . Read about all...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-Legislation to reauthorize the Fair Credit Reporting Act was reported favorably out of the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit last week by a vote 41-0 vote. H.R. 2622, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, sponsored by Subcommittee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) and several others...",
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"summary": "TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - For Hank Klein, CEO of the $350 million Arkansas Federal Credit Union, based in Jacksonville Arkansas, joining the board of Credit Union 24, the credit union owned fee-free ATM network based in Tallahassee, Florida, has meant a trip back to his roots. \"I was on the board...",
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"summary": "State Employees Federal Credit Union President/CEO Jim Blaine says his poodle \"Leggett\" is one of his favorite animals. \"I've always been partial to the underdog, and you know poodles have long had a reputation for being slow and a bit silly. Well, right, `Leggett' is not much on economics and...",
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"summary": "TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - Credit card offers dropped in 2002 due to concerns about war and uncertain economies, reported one card marketing and tracking firm, and have still not recovered completely. \"The dip in credit card mail volume really hit in the 4th quarter, propelled by an uncertain economy and worries...",
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"summary": "TAMPA, Fla. - The smoke has literally cleared from the stage at the Tampa Convention Center. The yellow bus has pulled away. Now MacDill Federal Credit Union will begin assessing the payoff from its decision to close all of its 15 branches July 14 for a day-long employee training program...",
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"summary": "ST. LOUIS, Mo. - CU Conferencesr has revved-up its 2003 lineup with a new conference entitled the Credit Union Services and Products Forum (S&P Forum). Scheduled to be held November 6-9 at the Mark Hopkins InterContinental in San Francisco, the forum will focus on maximizing the benefits that credit unions...",
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"summary": "AUSTIN, Texas - Wincor Nixdorf, a worldwide provider of cash solutions, is introducing what it calls one of the only security devices that can protect ATM users from fraud attacks such as the Lebanese loop and card skimming. The new features will be available as options later this year for...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Mary Martha Fortney, vice president of state government affairs for NASCUS was recently sworn in as a member of the board of trustees of Women in Housing and Finance. The WHF actively promotes women in the fields of financial services and housing. According to the association, it has...",
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"summary": "ST. PAUL, Minn. - Non-members of Affinity Plus FCU who join the credit union through its indirect lending program will no longer receive the same rate as current APFCU members, regardless of their credit rating. Affinity Plus restructured its indirect auto lending program so the service \"serves as a benefit...",
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"summary": "HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The managers of Redstone Federal Credit Union considered the ramifications of offering no-bounce check protection to its members, and it also considered the alternatives. \"A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck, and if you're in a situation where you have to have something right then, it's...",
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"summary": "CHICAGO - Illinois finally has a new director for the Department of Financial Institutions. Six months after firing the Republican-appointed director, Sarah Vega, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has named Roxanne Nava, a banker, to head the department that regulates credit unions, currency exchanges, consumer finance companies, title insurance companies and money...",
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