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"summary": "The Ellis Island Medal of Honor was created in 1986. Since that time some 1,300 people have received the award. The list of winners reads like a Who's Who of business, entertainment, politics, and sports. Past winners include the following: Politics: Bill Clinton, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The NCUA Board dispatched with four final regulations to enhance and modernize credit unions' dealings with the agency at this month's board meeting, which drew a standing room only crowd. While the agenda items were uncontroversial within the credit union community, several credit union leagues were in town for...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Vice Chair JoAnn Johnson participated in a roundtable discussion concerning member business lending at a low-income credit union in Manhattan earlier this month. Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union hosted the roundtable May 15 to provide Johnson an overview of the community it serves and the challenges...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA has posted its new Internet field of membership application codifying the most recent changes to the FOM regulations. At its March meeting, the NCUA Board approved its most recent amendments to the FOM chartering manual, including an increase for credit unions permitted to apply online from 500 potential...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz recently announced that the agency's next PALS-Partnering and Leadership Successes-workshop will be held in Durham, N.C. on July 8. The workshop, Making the Latino Connection: A PALS Workshop for Credit Unions, is focused on sharing ideas for serving Latino communities within credit unions' fields...",
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"summary": "CHICAGO - United Airlines Employees' Credit Union, which once epitomized the single sponsor structure, has joined a growing list of CUs rapidly expanding their field of membership and reaching out to a broader cross-section of individuals and occupation groups. The $4-billion Chicago-based credit union insists it remains committed to the...",
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"summary": "BAYTOWN, Texas - Since December 2002, when Community Resource Credit Union's name change was approved by the state, the credit union has been busy implementing a series of changes to establish a new identity for the institution. Changes include the introduction of shared branching, the public announcement of the name...",
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"title": "Homeland Security Bumps Terror Risk Level to Orange; Financials Could Be Targets",
"summary": "WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement to governments at all levels, as well as potential target industries to be on high alert. Following the terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, intelligence sources have indicated that a target inside the United States could be next. Financial institutions, as...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - So far 18 states have passed legislation curbing predatory lending - seven in 2003 - but that's only half the battle. The other half is enforcing consumer protection laws. The Mortgage Bankers Association of America will host an \"Enforcement Summit\" in Washington, D.C. on June 17 to discuss...",
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"summary": "NEW YORK -CUNA Mutual President/CEO Mike Kitchen recently spent some time with the likes of 60 Minutes Correspondent Mike Wallace, Wal-Mart President/CEO Thomas M. Coughlin, singer Michael Bolton, comedian Dennis Leary and many other notables, but he couldn't stop thinking about what got him there - credit unions and his...",
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"title": "GLOSSARY: Some Common Shared Branching Terms",
"summary": "Because shared branching borrows so heavily from the ATM industry, some of its terms are similar. Outlets: A shared branching outlet is a credit union branch that is allowed to conduct transactions for shared branching network members. Not all branches of a participating credit union are shared branching outlets. Stand-Alone:...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va.-The agenda for NAFCU's 36th Annual Conference to be held July 23-26 in Boston is focused on keeping members up-to-date with the latest information ranging from technology to human resources trends. Members are responding favorably to enhancements to the program with a total of 680 registrations as of the...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-Could the bankruptcy reform legislation stem the rising tide of bankruptcy filings or is the anticipation of its passage leading more people to file? Can anyone tell? According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, total bankruptcy filings in federal courts jumped 7.1% to more than 1.6 million in...",
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"summary": "BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Credit Union League anticipates that 750 Hispanic Idaho residents without banking relationships will start credit union accounts as a result of a program funded by the Department of the Treasury's First Accounts program. Idaho's League was one of the Leagues representing credit unions in eight...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va.-Eighty-two percent of NAFCU member credit unions are eligible for Regulatory Flexibility benefits, according to the organization's most recent monthly Flash survey. Even so, only about 15% responded that they were currently taking advantage of the exemptions afforded to well-managed, well-capitalized credit unions under the program. Still three-quarters said...",
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"summary": "NEW YORK - As retiring Baby Boomers make complex choices about where to keep their nest-egg assets, fierce competition for a share of retirement savings assets may profoundly alter the market's leaders and the followers, according to a recent study by Conning Research and Consulting, Inc. The study, `Winning the...",
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"summary": "TAMPA, Fla. - If you apply for a job at MacDill Federal Credit Union, President/CEO Bob Fisher wants you to understand expectations are high. \"This is not an easy place to work,\" he states. \"We are very demanding of ourselves.\" He describes himself as impatient. \"One of the things I...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - MBNA, the Delaware-based firm which claims to be the world's largest independent credit card issuer and is a leading purchaser of credit union credit card portfolios, has established an advisory board of credit unions to help it better understand and service its growing list of credit union...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-D. Edward Wells Federal Credit Union of Springfield, Mass. has been liquidated and its members are being folded into the Western Massachusetts Telephone Workers Credit Union field of membership. While Western Massachusetts Telephone Workers will serve most of the members of the $5-million liquidated credit union, NCUA is still...",
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