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"title": "Practical impediments could prevent widespread credit union check cashing",
"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va - Even if Congress and the Administration were to allow federally chartered credit unions to cash the checks of some non-members, as the pending Regulatory Relief bill would do, it is unlikely a large percentage of credit unions would rush to offer the service, according to various credit...",
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"summary": "LATHAM, N.Y. - The New York Credit Union League has unveiled a new product that will allow participating credit unions to broaden their credit card offerings beyond the traditional simple MasterCard and Visa products, the League said. Called \"Card in a Box,\" the new program will allow participating credit unions...",
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"title": "Marketer turned HR enthusiast Kathleen Elliott finds her true calling and jumps right in",
"summary": "FAIRFAX, Va. - With deep roots in credit union marketing, Kathleen Elliott has finally made her \"date with destiny\" by kicking off a new credit union consulting career. After 15 years of holding executive positions in marketing, operations and human resources at Waterford, Michigan-based BestSource Credit Union, Elliott has recently...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON - The headlines sound an alarm - \"More homeowners face foreclosure\"; \"Foreclosures soar nationwide.\" Should credit unions worry? Maybe, maybe not. It depends on who you talk to, where your credit union is located, and whether you're assessing today's situation or what may lie ahead. The data that has...",
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"title": "Missouri Credit Union System changing its name; will be the Missouri Credit Union Association",
"summary": "ST. LOUIS - The Missouri Credit Union System is changing its name to Missouri Credit Union Association, effective Jan. 1, 2003. \"We feel the name Missouri Credit Union Association better reflects who we are - the trade association representing credit unions in Missouri,\" said President and CEO Rosie Holub. At...",
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"summary": "FEDERAL WAY, Wash. and MESA, Ariz. - It's fitting that a governmental affairs guru, an author and teacher would all come from the Augustine clan. Fitting because dinner conversation almost always centered on credit union issues and travel to board meetings and league conferences with children in tow was the...",
"byline": "Michelle A. Samaad",
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"title": "Mayo welcomes challenges, encourages CUs to `think outside of the box' and take risks",
"summary": "CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Grace Mayo unabashingly admits she's a fan of taking on and creating challenges for herself. It's an attitude, she said, that's let her grow as a person and remain aware of her options. \"I'm not one to stay in a box, I like being challenged and to...",
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"title": "Yodlee says aggregation does pay; study finds there are clear ROI benefits",
"summary": "REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - Aggregation provider Yodlee says it finally has some proof that there's a beneficial Return-on-Investment (ROI) to offering aggregation. While aggregation is one more online service that can add some stickiness to a CU's online presence, the wild card has always been ROI. Does a CU add...",
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"title": "Weigh the pros, cons of bringing investment services into the CU before making a decision",
"summary": "While CUSOs wait for formal word from the SEC whether the agency will continue financial service CUSOs' license exemption under the Chubb Letter, now is a good time for credit unions to determine whether they will roll the CUSO's investment services back under the credit union's roof, or consider another...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/nacha-asks-for-comments-on-bounced-check-electronic-fee-collection/",
"title": "NACHA asks for comments on bounced check electronic fee collection",
"summary": "HERNDON, Va.-NACHA-the Electronic Payments Association-has requested comments on its recent proposal to permit electronic collection of bounced check fees. The comment period closes Thursday, December 5, 2002. The proposed rule would clarify that Regulation E allows for the collection of a service fee directly and electronically from the account of...",
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"title": "Treasury gives CUs and others and extra six months to create compliance plans, plus three for enforcement",
"summary": "WASHINGTON-The Treasury Department plans to delay financial institutions' compliance with Patriot Act Section 326 for six months after the date the final regulation is issued, according to reliable sources. An additional three months will be given before enforcement measures are taken, the same sources said. The final regulation was expected...",
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"summary": "COLUMBUS, Ohio - Why do CME Federal Credit Union and State Employees Credit Union want a financial counselor to help their members? Some statistics answer the question. A program at Nationwide Federal Credit Union here has already proved a success. Almost two years ago NFCU formed a partnership with Consumer...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-CUNA and NAFCU were present at the table with all the other key financial services trade associations-including the American Bankers Association, the American Council of Life Insurers, and the Securities Industry Association-during the second meeting of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for (FSSCC). The federal financial services regulatory agencies...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/credit-union-times-vol-4-no-43-october-24-1993/",
"title": "CREDIT UNION TIMES Vol. 4, No. 43 October 24, 1993",
"summary": "Looking back nine years ago finds a lively debate over the future of private deposit-insurance. Then NCUA Chairman Roger Jepsen warns that \"It's not a matter of whether the private system of deposit-insurance dies; it's just a matter of when.\" American Share Insurance President Dennis Adams takes a Survival-of-the-Fittest view...",
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"summary": "ALPHARETTA, Ga. - Processing credit and debit cards brought Certegy, the leading card processor for credit unions, $167 million in 2002, the company has reported. That represents an increase of $4.8 million, or 2.9%, over the same quarter last year. \"Excluding nonrecurring revenue of $6.3 million in the company's e-banking...",
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"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va. - It was a long hard road, but in the end corporates are pleased with the new corporate reg. The final corporate reg that was passed at NCUA's October board meeting has been in the works for a few years now, with corporate leaders and NCUA's Office of...",
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"summary": "NEW YORK - International Credit Union Day had a significant meaning for United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU). With more than 40,000 members worldwide, liaison representatives in 16 UN duty stations around the world, and two main liaison offices in Vienna, Austria, and Geneva, Switzerland, the credit union is dedicated...",
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"summary": "LATHAM, N.Y. - U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, the Government Reform Committee, and the joint Economic Committee, met with officials from credit unions in New York to discuss pending legislative issues important to CUs in the state and throughout the country. Visiting...",
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"summary": "ARLINGTON, Va.-NAFCU's monthly Flash Report found that while all the credit unions surveyed offer their members Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), very few offer Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). IDAs are a matched savings program to help low-income consumers build wealth. NAFCU economists found that every responding credit union to the survey...",
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"summary": "Anoka Hennepin Credit Union, Coon Rapids, Minn., Board Chairman Ron Nevala was one of 13 credit union activists from Minnesota attending the Hike the Hill trip on September 11. Hike the Hill encourages credit union activists to visit Washington D.C., throughout the year to educated elected officials on credit union...",
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"summary": "FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - The Washington Credit Union League Board will meet in the coming weeks to discuss, among other things, whether the league should hold merger and acquisition seminars for credit unions on acquiring, divesting and merging CUSOs. WCUL President/CEO John Annaloro said the league has been in the...",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - CUNA has struck a trial deal with Wisconsin-based Lands' End Business Outfitters to offer credit unions a 5% discount on embroidered products from their business catalog. \"This is a great opportunity for credit unions to put their logo on quality Lands' End business apparel and save some...",
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"summary": "WASHINGTON-As political races come down to the wire, CUNA's six Credit Union Champions are still facing up hill battles. Representative Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) still faces a very tight race, according to CUNA Vice President of Political Affairs Richard Gose, with nemesis Jim Humphreys, who was also her opponent in...",
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"summary": "SANTA FE, N.M. - It's been not quite a year and half since North Island Financial Credit Union converted federal to a state charter, but the $1.2 billion San Diego CU is now confident it has pulled off a well-crafted marketing program which is on target to bring in $26...",
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"summary": "GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Member First Mortgage has had its doors open for business for only nine months, but the CUSO is already in the late stages of negotiating with other credit unions to have ownership interest in the mortgage lending CUSO. When Member First Mortgage was incorporated on Sept....",
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"summary": "MADISON, Wis. - Credit unions in Honduras kicked off their celebration of International Credit Union Day with their first transfer of an IRnet remittance. IRnet will be used at credit unions in Honduras belonging to part of the country's national federation of credit unions. The 11 largest and strongest CUs...",
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"summary": "BOSTON - A $135 million state chartered credit union has sued the Massachusetts Commissioner of Banks for the permission to attempt to convert from a state chartered credit union to a federally chartered mutual savings bank. Commissioner of Banks, Thomas J. Curry, and the NCUA have denied Postal Community CU's...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/multiple-owned-cusos-pose-unique-dilemma-for-sec/",
"title": "Multiple-owned CUSOs pose unique dilemma for SEC",
"summary": "MEDIA, Pa. - The handful of credit unions that are large enough to support their own registered representative and are the sole owners of their financial services CUSO can consider themselves luckier than their smaller peers: the prospect of rolling the investment services back under their CU's roof is relatively...",
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"summary": "United Teletech Federal Credit Union, Tinton Falls, N.J., regretfully announces the recent passing of its former CEO and founding member Karol Sikorski. Sikorski helped establish the credit union in 1967 and he retired as CEO in 1994. For years, Sikorski was instrumental in guiding and shaping the direction of United...",
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"title": "AWARDS",
"summary": "Robins Federal Credit Union, Warner Robins, Ga., has announced the winners of its grand opening sweepstakes. Brenda Edwards was the winner of the Macon branch sweepstakes and Suzanne Frederiksen was named the winner of the Fort Valley branch sweepstakes. Each winner walked away with $2,500. The sweepstakes was open to...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/yolles-named-ncua-inspector-general-dupcak-becomes-clf-president/",
"title": "Yolles named NCUA inspector general; Dupcak becomes CLF president",
"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The NCUA Board selected Office of Examination & Insurance Deputy Director and Central Liquidity Facility (CLF) President Herbert S. Yolles as the new inspector general (IG), and Office of Strategic Program Support and Planning Director Edward P. Dupcak as the new CLF president effective Monday, October 21, 2002. Former...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/midwest-170/",
"title": "MIDWEST",
"summary": "South Division Credit Union, Evergreen Park, Ill., has promoted John Denlinger to financial services supervisor. Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union, St. Paul, Minn. has promoted Dean Johnson to director of Information Management.",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/first-data-opens-up-operations-in-china/",
"title": "First Data opens up operations in China",
"summary": "DENVER, CO - First Data, a large credit card processor that processes card transactions for many credit unions, has announced the formation of a Chinese subsidiary to serve the Chinese market. First Data may be the first large U.S. card processor to do so, according to media reports. The subsidiary...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/record-low-mortgage-rates-push-record-origination-rates-for-affinity-financial-services/",
"title": "Record low mortgage rates push record origination rates for Affinity Financial Services",
"summary": "BEDMINSTER, N.J. - Affinity FCU's mortgage CUSO, like the rest of the credit union industry, benefited from the record-setting low mortgage rates by setting a new mortgage origination record of its own. Executive Vice President/COO Mark Cochran said as of September the CUSO originated $518 million in mortgages. Eighty percent...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/converting-to-stock-institution-not-a-cure-all/",
"title": "Converting to stock institution not a cure-all",
"summary": "My letter concerns Mike Welch's August 21st column referencing the article entitled \"The CEO & Director Salary Imbalance is Corrected by Converting to a Mutual Bank Charter or a Stock Bank Charter\" that appeared in the August 5th edition on Callahan's Web site. As an attorney who represents a number...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/a-look-at-how-credit-unions-celebrated-international-credit-union-day/",
"title": "A look at how credit unions celebrated International Credit Union Day",
"summary": "WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - So just how did credit unions celebrate International Credit Union Week? Here is a look at the many ways credit unions chose to honor the day: For Dupaco Community Credit Union nothing says International CU Day like treats. And what could be a better treat...",
"byline": "Myriam DiGiovanni",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/amac-sells-off-non-performing-loans/",
"title": "AMAC sells off non-performing loans",
"summary": "ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA's Asset Management Assistance Center (AMAC) is selling off non-performing consumer, charge-off and deficiency balances, which the center does periodically, it announced this week. The package has a face value of approximately $3.6 million. Bidder packages are available through the AMAC at 512-231-7900 or [email protected]. The timeline...",
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"uri": "/2002/10/29/wsecu-service-corp-considering-offering-payday-lending-alternative/",
"title": "WSECU Service Corp. considering offering payday lending alternative",
"summary": "OLYMPIA, Wash. - Realizing that many credit union members use payday lenders despite the high fees they have to shell out, WSECU Service Corp. is looking into ways the CUSO can offer members more cost effective and consumer friendly alternatives. WSECU Service Corp. CEO Tristam Coffin said the CUSO is...",
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