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"summary": "CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Six months after a court ordered Iowa to allow financial institutions with ATMs in the state to charge ATM fees to users who are not customers, Shazam's Privileged Status network, whose members do not charge the fees, continues to grow, according to a story in the...",
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"summary": "An excellent September 25 issue of Credit Union Times discussed some of the pros and cons of credit unions selling their card portfolios, an important if not controversial matter for many. Having advised credit unions and other financial institutions 110 times on precisely this subject, perhaps I could clarify a...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Credit unions and others have until Oct. 28 to submit comments on pending Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act revisions. The proposed rules, as well as a news release and other information, can be found on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website, www.hud.gov. Under HUD Highlights...",
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"summary": "ORLANDO, Fla. - NCUA Board Chairman Dennis Dollar very gently scolded an audience of credit union directors, executives and volunteers attending CUNA's 2002 Symposium, arguing that the agency was more committed to allowing credit union make business loans to their members than most credit unions were to lending the money....",
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"summary": "VIENNA, Va.-NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz was on hand for Navy Federal Credit Union's 2002 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). CFC is the only authorized solicitation of federal employees in the workplace for charitable organizations, and while Navy Federal is not a federal workplace, it participates under the Department of the...",
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"summary": "FRISCO, Texas - How does a credit union build awareness, and ultimately, membership in a county where it has not had a strong presence before? Texans Credit Union hopes it is by stepping to the plate as a promotional sponsor for the Frisco RoughRiders, the new minor league double-A baseball...",
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"summary": "ORLANDO, Fla. - Member business services seems to be on all credit unions' minds these days - credit unions that don't offer member business loans and related services want to know if they should, and those that already do are looking at ways to expand their menu of business services....",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In a Letter to Credit Unions, NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar reminded all federally insured credit unions that they must be on the look out for possible terrorist financing through credit unions. The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) recently issued guidance in identifying and detecting potential terrorist...",
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"summary": "Determining what the major issues are that are currently facing credit unions, trying to understand them, and then prioritizing them, is a big issue unto itself. That seemed to be the case at the National Issues Forum, a deliberately wide-open general session at the recent CUNA Symposium in Orlando. The...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Mutual Group ranked near the top in the InformationWeek 500, a list InformationWeek puts out on the most innovative and largest users of IT among American companies. CUNA Mutual ranked No. 2, an astounding jump from 161 in 2001. CUNA Mutual was also ranked No. 1...",
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"summary": "Vault access palm readers and ATM iris scanners. Welcome to the future of credit unions. Technology has delivered tools to the financial services industry that were once only imagined in the movies. As some credit unions blaze the technology trail installing futuristic gizmos and gadgets, how do you know what's...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - The credit union employee who started the petition drive to decertify the Office and Professional Employees Union Local 39 from the institution learned what she needed to do from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), according to Kim Sponem, president of the $238 million, 42,000-member institution. \"We...",
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"summary": "SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Twenty-six banks and credit unions in the Springfield area have posted notices asking their customers, upon entering the institutions, to remove their hats and sunglasses, according to wire service reports. The Springfield police department has backed the program, which the services reported are based on a similar...",
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"summary": "PORTLAND, Ore. - While the intention behind hiring bilingual tellers to assist Spanish-speaking members is a good one, assisting some Latinos to open accounts and apply for loans may mean gradually building trust. That's part of the marketing campaign the newly-chartered Hacienda Community Credit Union aims to implement to reach...",
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"summary": "BOSTON - Economics will be the motivating force behind widespread adoption of technology making check imaging and truncation at ATMs a reality in the next several years, according to a new report from Celent Communications. The research and advisory firm predicts that between 2006 and 2008, early-mover financial institutions will...",
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"summary": "ORLANDO, Fla. - In a spirited National Issues Forum held at CUNA's Symposium, attendees dictated the topics covered - and they covered the gamut. From private insurance to field of membership expansion, the hour and a half session saw attendees touch on some controversial issues. The forum, facilitated by Credit...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - Credit unions and the Consumers Union are finding themselves on opposite sides of the table on the \"Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act.\" While CUNA and NAFCU, as well as NCUA have gone on record supporting the measure, the Consumers Union and other consumer organizations oppose the...",
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"summary": "COLUMBUS, Ohio - As identity theft grows increasingly problematic, insurance companies are offering policies to cover the losses incurred. Since 1999 Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Conn., has identity theft policies, while others including Cincinnati Insurance Co. and Columbus-based Grange Insurance have added the coverage, usually as a rider to a...",
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"summary": "KANSAS CITY, Mo. - When it's time to start working on their 2002 federal tax returns, members of credit unions that participate in H&R Block's Credit Union Tax Services Program will be able to consider completing and filing their federal tax return online using the company's new Online Tax Program....",
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"summary": "BILERICA, Mass. - From Bellco Credit Union in Denver to Teachers Credit Union in South Bend, Ind., a two-year old Massachusetts software firm, Experion Systems Inc., has been winning new industry converts this summer to a cost-saving training and customer service tool aimed at improving product selection. The \"trusted advisor\"...",
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"summary": "PEMBROKE, N.C. - Even as next year's appropriations for the U.S. Treasury's Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) hangs in the web of legislative and political conflict in Washington, leaders of one Native American tribe credit the program for helping their community take its first steps towards financial independence....",
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"summary": "BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - If a potential member uses a search engine to locate your credit union, are you sure that your Web site is the only one that will pop up? In what could be the start of a disturbing new trend, payday lenders and Internet scam artists may be...",
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"summary": "LILONGWE, Republic of Malawi - The credit union movement in Malawi faces problems that U.S. credit union leagues couldn't even begin to imagine. However, the Malawi Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (MUSCCOGM) still keeps plugging. Headed by Sylvester Kadzola as their Chief Executive, MUSCCOGM has 53 people who oversee...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va.-NAFCU made three recommendations for the Federal Reserve Board's Thrift Institutions Advisory Council (TIAC). The Fed is presently accepting nominations for the 2002-2003 TIAC. Combined, San Antonio Federal Credit Union President and CEO Jeff Farver; Kinecta Federal Credit Union and Kinecta Financial and Insurance Services President and CEO Thomas...",
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"summary": "WILMINGTON, Calif. - Credit unions with a lot of members who belong to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have begun battening down the hatches in the face of a ongoing labor conflict that observers say seems unlikely to end anytime soon. Over the weekend of September 28 and...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Mutual and Office and Professional Employees Union Local 39, which represents 1,600 of CUNA Mutual's employees, are disputing the rewarding of severance packages to displaced housekeeping/grounds employees. Last month CUNA Mutual said it was eliminating 22 housekeeping/grounds positions in order to save the company $1 million...",
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"summary": "CLEVELAND, Ohio - A recent study by Ohio State University Professor Jerald Greenberg finds that corporate ethics programs can reduce employee theft. Experts say that employee theft costs U.S. businesses billions each year and gets worse during hard economic times or when employees feel mistreated. According to Greenberg, workers often...",
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"title": "Setting the record straight on Municipal CU",
"summary": "I would be remiss if I didn't thank Mike Welch for his supportive response to the Municipal Credit Union's (MCU) action during the World Trade Center disaster of September 11, 2001. I read with great interest his column of September 11, 2002 (\"Back to normal not always a good thing\"),...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-A federal credit union may not charge a fee in promoting a bank's reverse mortgage, according to a recent legal opinion letter out of NCUA. However, acting as a finder is a permissible activity under NCUA's incidental powers rule. NCUA Associate General Counsel Sheila Albin wrote the letter, which...",
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"summary": "SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Closer ties or perhaps consolidation of the North and South Dakota Credit Union Leagues has moved a step closer with the resignation of the North Dakota League's 61-year-old president Buell Reich. Reich, who has been president of the North Dakota Credit Union League the last three...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recently issued release concerning the agency's rule on debt cancellation contracts and debt suspension agreements and explaining the agency's position on the products, is something national banks have been waiting for awhile. But it will still take some time,...",
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"summary": "TORONTO, Canada - There's still no official word from the Securities and Exchange Commission on whether the agency will decide CUSOs must discontinue receiving commissions from the sale of mutual funds and other securities, but it's only a matter of time before the SEC will formally announce what CUSOs have...",
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