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Major League Baseball has extended and broadened its relationship with MasterCard through the 2010 season, MLB announced today.

Pennsylvania has sued Advance America, the nation's largest payday lending chain to shut down what the state has alleged is the chain's latest attempt to get around a crackdown by federal banking regulators on banks funding payday lending operations.

Michelle Singletary, "The Color of Money" personal finance columnist for The Washington Post, used her life experiences to illustrate for credit unions that financial education should be personal.

A recent joint Employee Benefit News/Forrester Benefit Decisions Impact Study on consumer directed health plans finds that employers contemplating offering such plans would have them as part of a mix of benefit offerings.

Altura Credit Union has introduced a new Visa credit card that gives back to the community.

Federally insured credit unions saw an increase in the net worth ratio and return on assets over the first half of the year, while the aggregate net interest margin continued to get squeezed.