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"title": "The Changing Role of the Credit Union CFO Strongly Linked to Member Behavior, Race to Stay Competitive",
"summary": "RALEIGH, N.C. - For many years, the chief financial officer had a well-defined place in the credit union pecking order. Sitting right below the CEO, the CFO was in charge of financial functions like accounting and reporting, planning, risk management, and corporate finance. Today, the CFO is emerging as the...",
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"summary": "The Credit Union Partnership for Informed Consumers marked ICU Day by passing out Money Management Workbooks to members and non-members alike. Some 25,000 workbooks promoting practical ways to be fiscally fit were printed and over 8,000 flyers were distributed in the local newspaper Tallahassee Democrat advising consumers about the free...",
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"summary": "State and national trade association annual budgets are traditionally made up of dues income and monies generated by such things as products and services for sale, and registration fees collected for a wide variety of trade group conferences and other educational meetings. But it is annual membership dues that are...",
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"uri": "/2003/10/28/cuna-mutual-groups-insurance-companies-receive-excellent-rating/",
"title": "CUNA Mutual Group's Insurance Companies Receive Excellent Rating",
"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - Recognizing its operating returns, liquidity and \"conservative\" balance sheet, A.M. Best recently reaffirmed its \"A\" rating of CUNA Mutual Group's primary insurance companies. The ratings agency applied the \"Excellent\" rating to CUNA Mutual Insurance Society, CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Co., (CMLIC), MEMBERS Life Insurance Co., and CUMIS...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis.-The National Endowment for Financial Education's financial education program aimed at teenagers reported record numbers of students participating, according to CUNA. More than 76,000 students at almost 900 high schools took part in NEFE's High School Financial Planning Program during the 2002-03 school year, sponsored by CUNA. That includes...",
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"summary": "CUSOs are not only increasing in number, but regulatory and legislative changes are expanding their ability to provide new products and services to members. Catch up on CUSO news in a special report on pages 20-23.",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - CUNA's Center for Personal Finance has come out with two new statement stuffers for credit unions to send to members that explain how to determine an affordable mortgage loan and discuss the availability of small business loans from credit unions. "How Much House" explains how interest rates...",
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"title": "Former Credit Union Executives Do Very Well in Stock Offering",
"summary": "NEW YORK - Executives and board members for Rainier Pacific Bank, the former Rainier Pacific Credit Union, have done very well in the former credit union's initial public offering. The data from October 21 trading shows shares of Rainier Pacific Financial Group, which is the stock issuing holding company for...",
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"summary": "SAN DIEGO - CUSO Financial Services, one of the leading broker-dealers that provides investment and insurance programs to credit unions, recently recognized four top-performing credit unions at its annual conference here. CFS President Valorie Seyfert and COO Amy Beattie presented the 2002 Pacesetter Awards in recognition of the success of...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-Credit unions and the Small Business Administration are similar to two people going out on their first date, according to SBA General Counsel David Javdan. In his comments during a panel on the legal risks and requirements of SBA lending at the NCUA's Oct. 16 PALS conference, Javdan encouraged credit...",
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"summary": "INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz told attendees of Mid-States Corporate Federal Credit Union's Economic Forum that reaching many types of people with a wide array of services will help credit unions diversify membership, as well as assets. \"Diversity - both in membership and in assets - is the best...",
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"title": "Advantage Plus LLC Seminar Offers Tips on Saving for Higher Ed",
"summary": "ST. PAUL, Minn. - With tuition costs for higher education continuing to rise, finding ways to pay for higher education has become harder and more challenging. Advantage Plus LLC, a wholly-owned financial services CUSO of Affinity Plus FCU, hosted a seminar on Oct 16 that covered ways to save money...",
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"title": "Regulator's Overdraft Recommendations Pose Few Problems for Pennsylvania CUs",
"summary": "HARRISBURG, Penn. - Pennsylvania credit unions have gotten the go-ahead from the state Department of Banking to offer overdraft protection programs and to proceed - but with caution. Credit unions in the state recently received letters from A. William Schenck III, secretary of banking, that outlined recommended practices for overdraft...",
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"summary": "Carolina Trust Federal Credit Union, Myrtle Beach, S.C., has named Liz Short Surfside Beach branch manager. Memphis Area Teachers' Credit Union, Tenn., has elected Christina Marshall Cordova branch director. Army Aviation Center Federal Credit Union, Dalevile, Ala., has elected Roger Turnquist board director and Gerald Strange supervisory committee director. GTE...",
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"title": "Security of Financial Infrastructure Top Priority In Disasters; Industry Preparedness Scored Well",
"summary": "WASHINGTON - Is the nation's financial system safe during disasters? The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing last week entitled Government and Industry Efforts to Protect Our Money During Blackouts, Hurricanes, and Other Disasters, to find out. The hearing looked into security and disaster preparedness...",
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"summary": "OLYMPIA, Wash. - Any credit union in Washington State that doubted the importance the Division of Credit Unions places on succession planning only has to refer to a bulletin the DCU recently issued. Observing that \"a large portion of our credit unions have management approaching retirement age in the near...",
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"summary": "Berrien Teachers Credit Union, St. Joseph, Mich., has named Crystal Little, Kathy Wilson, Linda Frantz, Char Cundiff, and Mary Anne Mabry the new Member Service Processing department team. MidWest America Federal Credit Union, has named Keith Myler vice president of human resources.",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The NCUA Board performed some housekeeping duties during a brief open meeting Oct. 23. NCUA CFO Dennis Winans presented the board with the quarterly insurance fund report. The agency's net income is projected to be down to $40 million for 2003, according to NCUA data. This was far below...",
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"summary": "TUKWILA, Wash. - If it were up to Prime Alliance's Joe Brancucci, no company would be allowed to be nominated for NACUSO's `Professional of the Year' award unless they could prove they were willing to take risks and demonstrate they were doing something out of the ordinary. The 52-year old...",
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"summary": "PORTLAND, Ore. - Some current and former credit union leaders are behind a new Web-based relationship pricing product that they believe can do for credit unions what frequent flier programs did for airlines. The product is known as PoinTracs, and the company offering it is Portland, Oregon-based AlphaPk, LLC. Most...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Fraudulent credit union newspaper advertisements have run in at least 19 states that investigators are aware of and individual victims have been bilked out of funds ranging from $650 to in excess of $15,000, according to NCUA Office of General Counsel Federal Investigator David L. Eno who has been...",
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"summary": "LANSING, Mich. - Underscoring a trend among automotive credit unions to diversify, it hardly seemed surprising that three of the largest auto CUs in the U.S. carried Web announcements about converting to community charters. "We actually converted eight months ago but we made it official last week by changing our...",
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