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"uri": "/2003/11/04/banking-groups-pilot-id-theft-assistance-center/",
"title": "Banking Groups Pilot ID Theft Assistance Center",
"summary": "WASHINGTON-Two major banking groups revealed last week that they are working to streamline the process for identity theft victims to restore their financial identity and credit. The Identity Theft Assistance Center, created by The Financial Services Roundtable and BITS, aims to address these crimes in a consumer-friendly manner, a release...",
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"title": "Web-Based Biz Continuity Planner Wins First CUNA Tech Council Award",
"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - An Internet-based business continuity planning tool was awarded the first CUNA Technology Council Best of Show Award at the recent 2003 Future Forum in Reno, Nev. PLANet is a hosted product of Strohl Systems of King of Prussia, Pa., (www.planetstrohl.com). It allows online developing, testing and maintaining...",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/house-financial-subcommittees-to-hold-joint-hearing-on-abusive-lending/",
"title": "House Financial Subcommittees to Hold Joint Hearing on Abusive Lending",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - The House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity and the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit will hold a joint hearing Nov. 5 on \"Protecting Homeowners: Preventing Abusive Lending While Preserving Access to Credit.\" A spokesperson for the House Financial Services Committee said the hearing, which was...",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/more-than-50-institutions-issue-mastercards-business-debit-product/",
"title": "More than 50 Institutions Issue MasterCard's Business Debit Product",
"summary": "PURCHASE, N.Y. - MasterCard International announced that 50 financial institutions now issue its business debit card. The number of debit MasterCard Business Card issuers has increased 21% through the first half of 2003 compared to the previous year, card count and purchase volume have risen 61% respectively, and purchase transactions...",
"byline": "David Morrison",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/texas-newspaper-encourages-consumers-to-check-out/",
"title": "Texas Newspaper Encourages Consumers to Check Out Credit Unions for Banking Deals",
"summary": "FORT WORTH, Texas - Credit unions offer some of the best consumer banking deals around, reported a recent article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Not-for-profit status and. tax advantages were the reasons given for credit unions being able to offer such deals. "As consumers shop around for the best deals...",
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"title": "Diversity Career Fair Pays Off for Kinecta FCU",
"summary": "MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - When Kinecta Federal Credit Union was Hughes Aircraft Federal Credit Union, a survey showed the diverse demographic profile of employees closely matched that of the sponsoring company. In July 2001 the credit union launched its new name, but the commitment to reflecting the diversity of 200,000...",
"byline": "Eileen Courter",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/fortney-theriault-to-square-off-at-cues-ceo-network-conference/",
"title": "Fortney, Theriault to Square off at CUES CEO Network Conference",
"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - NASCUS Acting President/CEO Mary Martha Fortney and CU Financial Services President Alan Theriault will participate in a question and answer format panel discussion on \"The Charter Conversion Controversy\" at CUES' upcoming CEO Network Conference. The four-day conference will take place Nov. 2-5 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort...",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/california-dfi-commissioner-determines-extraordina/",
"title": "California DFI Commissioner Determines "Extraordinary Situation Exists"",
"summary": "SAN FRANCISCO - The Department of Financial Institutions on Oct. 28, after determining that an "extraordinary situation exists" in counties in Southern California that have been proclaimed in state of emergency by the Governor due to the raging wildfires there, authorized financial institutions located in the counties of Los Angeles,...",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/community-cu-hits-the-ice-with-stars-as-the-stanle/",
"title": "Community CU Hits the Ice with Stars as the Stanley Cup Winning Team's Official CU",
"summary": "PLANO, Texas - Community Credit Union staffers have hockey fever. The $1.6 billion credit union is now the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars' official credit union. According to Communication Event Specialist Kim Miklis, after a two-month search for a team sponsorship the Dallas Stars proved to be the best fit....",
"byline": "Myriam DiGiovanni",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/online-resources-reports-black-ink-looks-ahead-to-money-hq-launch/",
"title": "Online Resources Reports Black Ink, Looks Ahead to Money HQ Launch",
"summary": "McLEAN, Va. - Online Resources Corp. reported that income and earnings continued to increase in the third quarter of 2003. The Internet banking and payments vendor, which trades on the Nasdaq as ORCC and has more than 550 credit union and bank clients, said revenue for the quarter ending Sept....",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/some-credit-union-myths-refuse-to-die/",
"title": "Some Credit Union Myths Refuse To Die",
"summary": "There are many sources readily available that detail a plethora of interesting facts and figures about credit unions. What is a lot more difficult to find is any kind of rundown of some credit union myths. So here are just a few of the more well known ones. Myth Regarding...",
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"uri": "/2003/11/04/ffiec-mortgage-borrowers-loans-officers-should-not/",
"title": "FFIEC: Mortgage Borrowers, Loans Officers Should Not Pick Real Estate Appraisers",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - Because it may compromise the quality of the appraisals, regulators have suggested that banks should not allow borrowers or lending officers to select their own real estate appraisers. In new guidelines on independent appraisals released by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), banks should select their own...",
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"title": "Harland Financial Services Links With CUNA for Business Technology Solutions",
"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - CUNA and Harland Financial Services, a subsidiary of John H. Harland Company, have reach an agreement that makes Harland Financial Services the association's exclusive provider of customer relationship management and business loan origination software to CUNA-affiliated credit unions. Under the arrangement, Harland will provide its LaserProT Compliant...",
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"title": "More Retirees Working Through Retirement Years Means Retooling Financial Services",
"summary": "SAN FRANCISCO - With nearly 5.3 million Americans shifting in and out of retirement, the line between work and leisure continues to fade and `retirement' takes on another meaning. More than 60% of Baby Boomers say they'll work in retirement, many forced to do so because of rising health-care costs,...",
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"summary": "PORTLAND, Ore. - Corillian Corp. reported a slight decline in revenue in the just-ended third quarter but noted that the Internet banking and e-commerce vendor continued to be profitable. Revenues for the quarter ended Sept. 30 were $11.6 million, compared with $11.5 million for the second quarter of 2003, while...",
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"title": "Trimming NYSE Board to a Handful Would Make It More Accountable, Chairman Says",
"summary": "NEW YORK - New York Stock Exchange interim chairman John Reed has proposed trimming the current 27-member board to between 6 and 12 independent directors to make it more accessible and accountable to the general public. Reed released a formal proposal on Nov. 3 to the current board that will...",
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"summary": "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Gregg Stockdale, CEO of the $29 million San Bernardino Credit Union, said that the recent round of fires in the hills around the community will devastate many of his members. \"We have been open for 90 minutes,\" Stockdale said. \"We have already seen 15 members walk...",
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"title": "California Lawmakers Want Changes to FCRA to Include Key Provisions of State's Tough Privacy Law",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - California lawmakers are furious over attempts by some in the financial services industry seeking to get Congress to gut tough financial privacy legislation recently approved by the California Legislature. State Sen. Jackie Speier, who championed the bill - SB1 - through the California Legislature after several years of...",
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"title": "\"Protecting the Financial Sector\" Workshops Slated in to 2005",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - The next full day symposium on \"Protecting the Financial Sector - A Public and Private Partnership\" will be held Nov. 7 in Waltham, Mass. A second program that month will be held Nov. 20 in Cleveland. Other locations that will host the event include Charlotte, NC., Minneapolis, Philadelphia,...",
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"summary": "RALEIGH, N.C. -State Employees' Credit Union (SECU) has recently developed and published a $martMoney booklet for its FAT CAT program aimed at members up to age 12. \"Financial literacy is the primary focus of SECU's youth programs and our goal is to provide our young members with the foundation for...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA has placed College Heights Credit Union of Fayetteville, N.C., into conservatorship due to its poor financial condition. The key factor in NCUA conserving the credit union was that its net worth fell below 2%, according to the NCUA chairman's Special Assistant for Public Affairs Nick Owens, though he...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Following a highly successful Partnering and Leadership Success Member Business Lending Workshop held recently in Washington, D.C., NCUA has decided to take a second look at the issue on the West Coast. Even with about 200 attendees at the D.C. session, about 40 people were placed on a waiting...",
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"summary": "Eagle Community Credit Union, Lake Forest, Calif., has named Betty Patton Garden Grove branch manager. DM Federal Credit Union, Tucson, Ariz., has named Richard Lemons Magee Road branch manager. Nevada Federal Credit Union, Las Vegas, has named Charles D. McCluer vice president of information technology. Rogue Federal Credit Union, Medford,...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Self-Help, the Ford Foundation and Fannie Mae have not only successfully completed, but also exceeded, a five-year, $2 billion housing initiative launched in 1998 to provide affordable mortgages to 30,000 minority and low-income home buyers in the U.S., 14,500 of whom are in North Carolina. Building on the...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-An alert from Democratic Whip Senator Harry Reid (Nev.) announced that the Senate has reached an agreement on the consideration of legislation to renew the federal preemptions in the Fair Credit Reporting Act and add identity theft protections. The agreement, reached late last Tuesday, will permit no more than 25...",
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"summary": "THE WOODLANDS, Texas - A retirement crisis appears to be looming as credit union CEOs grow frustrated over increased regulations governing pensions and 401(k) plans that may restrict their retirement needs. This, from the Supplement Executive Retirement Programs (SERP) survey done by D. Hilton Associates, Inc. that highlights retirement funding...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - CUES will induct four credit union notables into the Credit Union Executives Society Hall of Fame at a special ceremony on Nov. 2 at its CEO Network 2003 conference. They include: Wayne Bunker, president/CEO, Provident Central CU and immediate past chairman of CUES; Pete Crear, EVP and...",
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"summary": "CORVALLIS, Ore. - The $383 million Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union has won CUNA Technology Council's eSolutions Best Practice Award at its eighth annual conference. Purdue is a client of credit union data processor Summit Information Systems, a Fiserv subsidiary. The credit union worked with Summit to develop its eMember...",
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