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PEWAUKEE, Wis. - The holiday season may bring good cheer but the Wisconsin Credit Union League is helping consumers beat the identity theft blues that can also pop up this time of year. Listed below are just a few ideas from the league on how consumers can better protect themselves...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - As the use of broadband channels for Internet delivery continues to grow, credit unions can expect members to be more interested in using online options for service. According to a new report from Forrester Research, consumers who use broadband are significantly more likely to use e-mail and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - SAFE Credit Union has signed on to use a managed workforce optimization service with an eye on supporting member services while lowering operating costs. The $1.2 billion CU has contracted with San Diego-based Exametric to provide hosted forecasting, scheduling, and time and performance solutions. "The Exametric Workforce...

DALLAS - Twenty credit union executives from Brazil stopped here recently to gather and share information in the U.S. on the middle segment of a three-country tour of the credit union system in August. The group also visited Mexico and Canada. The objective of their U.S. journey was to learn...

LEEDS, UK and GLASGOW, Scotland - The British Financial Services Authority (FSA), which regulates UK credit unions, took over the regulation of mortgages on November 1st , and for the first time UK credit unions have been given the right to offer 25-year mortgage loans. Prior to the new regulations...

PURCHASE, N.Y. - Kraft Foods Federal Credit Union's decision to go with Digital Insight's new loan-origination system (LOS) was a matter of simple logic. Boolean logic. The logic system that helped launch digital technology itself also drives the decision-making machine in DeskTopLender Premium, which the $535 million CU is going...