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"summary": "RENO, Nevada - In February, CUNA's incoming Chairman of the Board, Richard Ensweiler, will mark 40 years of employment in the credit union movement. Ensweiler has served in his current capacity as president and CEO of the Texas Credit Union League for eight years, and previously headed the Minnesota and...",
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"summary": "DM Federal Credit Union, Tucson, Ariz., employee association members donated their time to prepare a warm meal for families staying at Tucson's Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House is a temporary home-away-from-home, where the families of children being treated for serious illnesses or trauma reside while the child receives...",
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"summary": "SHOREVIEW, Minn. - Add check printer Deluxe Corporation to the growing list of companies embracing Consumer-Driven Health Care programs. Deluxe has recently tapped Alexandria, Virginia-based health care provider Lumenos to offer its nearly 6,000 employees a CDHC program. Through the CDHC program an employer makes an annual allocation to each...",
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"summary": "Thank you, Mike Welch, once again for your input in your September 17th column on the Matricular form of ID for new members (\"Are Matricular Consular Cards Good Or Bad?\"). We have been wrestling with this very question at our credit union and Welch's column makes it easier for me...",
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"uri": "/2003/10/07/georgia-ag-praises-cu-for-work-on-id-theft/",
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"summary": "HINEVILLE, Ga. - Underscoring the state's crackdown on identity theft, Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker has singled out a Hinesville credit union, Fort Stewart Georgia Federal Credit Union, for helping ID theft victims and urged other Georgia financial institutions to follow the CU's lead. \"We really appreciate the support we've...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va.-NAFCU hosted an audioconference last week on managing interest rate exposure for credit unions with high concentrations of fixed mortgage loans. The discussion focused on real estate loan exposure management, assignment, controls, and risk mitigation, according to NAFCU Economist Dr. Tun Wai. He added that NCUA has alerted a...",
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"summary": "ATLANTA - Approximately 500 positions are expected will be eliminated at Harland Printed Products as a result of the company's plans to reduce the number of its production facilities. Harland Printed Products, a division of John H. Harland Company intends to consolidate its domestic manufacturing operations from 14 to nine,...",
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"summary": "DUBLIN, Ohio - Nearly two months after the state required Ohio's credit unions to charge members a sales tax on safe deposit boxes, the Ohio Credit Union League is cautiously optimistic about any new taxes. As bankers and elected officials in other states pressure legislatures to look to credit unions...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - After a four-month search for a leader, University of Wisconsin Credit Union has appointed Paul Kundert president/CEO. Kundert fills the seat left vacant since May 2003 when Ron Staatz became President/CEO of SECU of Maryland. Kundert joins UW Credit Union with over 13 years of financial services...",
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"uri": "/2003/10/07/when-check-21-eventually-passes-then-work-starts-on-regs/",
"title": "When Check 21 Eventually Passes, then Work Starts on Regs",
"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va. - Check 21 is inching closer to being finished. Disputes that have stalled the legislation have been worked out, and all signs at this point are the bill's a go. But even once the bill to facilitate electronic check clearing is passed by Congress, it will still be...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar recently hosted a meeting at the agency's headquarters with the president's top advisor on the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities to discuss the opportunities for credit union services and student recruitment. President George W. Bush's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities...",
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"title": "The Future of Share Drafts: More Choices for Payment Systems Participants",
"summary": "A lot is happening in the world of share drafts. Merchants and banks are converting share drafts into ACH entries to reduce cost and speed processing, and legislators are passing a law (the Check Truncation Act, also known as "Check 21") that will provide new options for the collection of...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Credit unions with loan portfolios that are heavily concentrated in fixed-rate mortgages should work to diversify, NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar warned in a recent Letter to Credit Unions (03-CU-15). Due to historically low interest rates earlier this year, credit unions' share growth boomed while demand for mortgage lending also...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin State Legislature passed a bill, A.B. 2, that modernizes the state's credit union statute. The bill was been sent to Gov. Jim Doyle and he is expected to sign it in to law. A.B. 2 was introduced in January. It allows state-chartered credit unions to...",
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"summary": "DALLAS -On September 30, 2002, U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin and Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Adolfo Franco announced a $500,000 initiative that would lower the cost of remittances being sent from the United States to Mexico and ensure more individuals on both sides of the border...",
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"summary": "FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - John M. Floyd & Associates was named by CU Association of the West LLC as its strategic provider for JMFA's Overdraft PrivilegeT program. \"Overdraft privilege allows credit unions to increase their non-interest income without raising fees or making any capital outlay, by integrating into their existing...",
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"summary": "Looking back nine years ago finds NCUA reviewing the proposed West Coast mega-merger of Patelco CU, First Technology FCU and Seattle Telco FCU. Patelco President Ed Callahan attributed NCUA's actions, which include gathering input from its legal staff and allowing its six regional directors to comment on the proposal, to...",
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"summary": "RENO, Nev.-By all accounts, CUNA's attempt to give "energy" and sparkle to exhibits at its annual Future Forum conference paid off. "I'd call it a home run," effused one rather biased CUNA executive heading up exhibit hall operations, Todd Spiczenski, assistant vice president. Many CU participants seemed to agree as...",
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"summary": "RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Move over Suze Orman, Riverside County's Credit Union is looking to take the lead in educating and empowering women about their finances. RCCU will be hosting a \"Money Makeover\" educational seminar tailored to women in November. \"It is a title that is not patronizing. That clearly said,...",
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