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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Consumers didn't win this time around, as Lending Tree's TV ads proclaim, when banks compete for business because employees funneled leads to lenders who were not approved.

BEDFORD, Ind. -- The $313 million Hoosier Hills Credit Union found that loaning another cooperative money has paid a variety of different dividends.

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A community organization has been working to establish a new community development credit union in New Jersey. If they succeed, the new CU will be the first in the state in 11 years, according to the New Jersey Credit Union League.

WesCorp Federal Credit Union, San Dimas, Calif., celebrated Earth Day by handing out reusable canvas bags printed with the WesCorp logo and the message, "Credit Unions for a Greener America." With many California communities moving to ban plastic grocery bags plus charge for the paper replacements, WesCorp handed out 500...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Louisiana Credit Union League CEO Anne Cochran doesn't exactly jet set around the globe like Bono or Angelina Jolie, but through the Strathmore WOCCU African Management Institute, a management certification program she helped create here, she's arguably touched thousands of member-owners on the beleaguered continent.

SAN DIMAS, Calif. -- When $450 million Christian Community Credit Union cut a $232,500 check last month to Launch a Village, a project that assists two missionaries in their efforts to provide water, sanitation, education, medical care and microenterprise loans for three villages in northern Thailand, it was more than...