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"summary": "In between paralyzing snow and rain storms, the huge annual CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference in D.C. once again came off with a familiar sameness, but several differences too. Here are some random observations: * The record turnout of 3,000-plus again strained the conference facilities of the Washington Hilton Hotel. For...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-Mary Louise Preis, Maryland commissioner of financial regulation and NASCUS Board member, spoke out tenaciously against NCUA strong-arming its way into regulating state chartered credit unions through the insurance fund. \"We need to ensure that state chartered credit unions have their view in decisions the agency makes about the share...",
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"uri": "/2003/03/04/credit-union-times-vol-8-no-10-march-5-1997/",
"title": "CREDIT UNION TIMES Vol. 8, No. 10 March 5, 1997",
"summary": "Looking back six years ago finds Nancy Pierce facing a packed house of GAC attendees barely containing her glee. \"Ladies and gentlemen we have some good news to report. The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear the credit union case,\" said Pierce. The jubilation was followed...",
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"summary": "BOISE, Idaho - In April the Idaho Credit Union League subsidiary League Services Inc. will add direct deposit to its newly-launched payroll processing service for member credit unions. The rollout will be the latest step in a service offering ICUL began at the request of credit unions. \"Technically, we started...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. -A recent Filene Research Institute report, finds that credit unions are in a unique position to help reduce employee financial stress and increase workplace performance. According to Filene Research Institute Executive Director Bob Hoel, one study revealed that the dollar cost to an employer for an employee who...",
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"summary": "KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Apparently it is not how much but what information is placed on a bald head that will appeal to elusive Generation X'ers here. \"We wanted the students here to know that UTFCU accounts really stand out in a crowd and that we are `head and shoulders' above...",
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"title": "Symitar Lands U.S. Central after Corporates' Corporate Spent Over 20 Years With EDS",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - Symitar Systems has landed its largest credit union client ever in U.S. Central. Credit Union Times first reported last August (CU Times, Aug. 21) that U.S. Central had selected Symitar for its core processing, and the two parties made it official at CUNA's GAC. Symitar President/CEO Bruce Cormode...",
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"uri": "/2003/03/04/cuna-launches-new-consumer-oriented-coop-site/",
"title": "CUNA Launches New Consumer-oriented .coop Site",
"summary": "WASHINGTON -CUNA has launched a consumer-focused credit union Web site under the .coop Internet domain. CUNA said it developed the new site to provide consumers with targeted, relevant and timely information about credit unions and financial literacy tools in an easy-to-navigate format. Much of the information already appears on the...",
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"title": "New Mexico New Hot Spot for Tax Bill on CUs",
"summary": "SANTA FE, N.M. - New Mexico is the latest state to come under the national spotlight as a prospective new battleground for a banking/credit union duel over taxes. A bill, introduced in the New Mexico House Feb. 20, seeks to levy a 5% corporate franchise tax on state-chartered CUs with...",
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"title": "SECURITY FCU Staffers now Know Fame",
"summary": "FLINT, Mich. - Several employees of SECURITY Federal Credit Union may soon be signing autographs since starring in the latest television advertising campaign. Two new television commercials airing on local television stations across the area, play up SECURITY FCU's tagline as \"The People Who Know.\" Throughout both commercials, SECURITY employees...",
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"summary": "ST. PETERSBERG, Fla. - PSCU Financial Services paid less than $5,000 for a full-page advertisement in USA Today to get the attention of credit union executives and board members assembled at the 2003 CUNA GAC, according to Brian Crawford, Chief Marketing Officer for the firm. \"Credit unions have probably noticed...",
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"title": "Massachusetts CU CEO Appointed by Governor to Highway Commission",
"summary": "SHREWSBURY, Mass. - David L'Ecuyer, president/CEO of Central One FCU was selected by Gov. Mitt Romney here to serve on the newly-created Massachusetts Turnpike Commission that will work to save the state millions of dollars each year. L'Ecuyer joins seven other officials including legislators, university administrators, a former Internal Revenue...",
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"title": "United Teletech CU Still CUANJ-Affiliated",
"summary": "The article \"Clark Out as Shaughnessy is Named Interim President of CUANJ; New Jersey CUs in Wait and See Mode\" that ran in the Feb. 19 issue of Credit Union Times listed United Teletech Federal Credit Union with the names of a few credit unions that disaffiliated from their association...",
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"title": "Landmark CU Expands First-Time Home Buyer Program with Construction Loans",
"summary": "NEW BERLIN, Wis. - Not everyone who buys a home wants a house someone's lived in before. Some people prefer to build their own home and be the first occupants. Sometimes building a home from scratch is simply a better value than buying a pre-existing one. Members of Landmark CU...",
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"summary": "MODESTO, Calif. - Food Processors Credit Union has been named 2002 Business of the Year by the Stanislaus County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Food Processors CU, which captured the award last year as well, serves the area's low-income Hispanic population who work mainly in the agricultural and food processing industries....",
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"title": "CUNA Mutual, Liberty, and U.S. Central, Each Contribute $100,000 to NCUF",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - CUNA Mutual Group, U.S. Central, and Liberty Enterprises each donated $100,000 to the National Credit Union Foundation (NCUF). The donations were presented on Feb. 23 prior to the 2003 Herb Wegner Memorial Awards Dinner. Michael B. Kitchen, CUNA Mutual president/CEO, made the contribution for CUNA Mutual. \"We are...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar told attendees of CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference last Monday that the prompt corrective action law should be modified to take into account a credit union's risk. Dollar pointed out that different diversifications of a portfolio makes a credit union a higher or lower risk entity and...",
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"summary": "MERRIFIELD, Va. - Navy Federal's recent decision to start surcharging foreign users of its ATMs had nothing to do with its recent decision to join the CO-OP Network, according to Navy Federal spokeswoman Loren Moeller. Navy Federal, the world's largest credit union, is a $17 billion institution based in Merrifield,...",
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"summary": "SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - The first shared branching network - Service Centers Corporation-is ready for its national marketing debut. Although well known locally and in Washington D.C. since merging with CO-OP Network, the largest credit union owned ATM/EFT network in June, SCC is making the most of its position as the...",
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"summary": "RALEIGH, N.C. - It was standing room only for a payday lending breakout session at CUNA's GAC, portending what could be a more aggressive stance by credit unions to take on payday lenders. Twenty-five thousand members of the $9 billion State Employees' Credit Union use a payday loan-like product monthly,...",
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"summary": "MERRIFIELD, Va. - Hearings on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's proposal to reform the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and simplify the home buying process continued in the House Financial Servicing Housing Subcommittee last week, but credit unions and trades say it's the wrong reform for the right...",
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"summary": "SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A bill to study the imposition of a \"fee\" on state and federally chartered credit unions in California has been introduced in the California Assembly - but the sponsor of the measure insists that is not the intent of her legislation. \"I realize it looks like we're...",
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"title": "SBA Lifts Half-Million Loan Cap",
"summary": "WASHINGTON-Administrator Hector Barreto of the U.S. Small Business Administration last Tuesday lifted the cap on SBA-backed loans, an action which had many large lenders in an uproar. Participating lenders can once again submit applications for guaranteed loans of up to $2 million, as set in the statute, according to SBA....",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-The Federal Reserve Board approved a final rule recently amending Regulation B, implementing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The Reg B amendments create an exception to allow creditors to collect nonmortgage applicants' personal characteristics to `self-test' for ECOA compliance. Also addressed in the changes is a 25-month record retention requirement...",
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