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VISA, CFA Find Financial Difficulties a Fact of Life in Female-Headed Households

By Sarah Snell Cooke

WASHINGTON-The Consumer Federation of America and VISA USA discovered that households headed by women earn about half the salary and hold one-third the net wealth of otherwise headed households, the organizations revealed at a Jan. 12 press conference. A joint study of Federal Reserve Board data collected by its Survey...

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January 20, 2004

Why Care What Pulse Thinks?

PULSE is the only ATM and EFT Network in the country that is owned by members who are both banks and credit unions. Credit union and bank CEOs sit on PULSE's board and the association has traditionally used their presence to help it define and articulate positions which it believes...

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January 20, 2004

Card Payment Growth Continues to Accelerate; Debit Cardholders Tend to Be High Volume Users

WASHINGTON - A landmark study of consumer habits conducted by the American Bankers Association and Boston-based Dove Consulting has found that all types of debit transactions have continued to whittle away the percentage of payments held by cash and checks, and that the decline in those two older forms of...

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January 13, 2004

Special Report: Auto Lending & Services

Indirect lending and auto loan promotions helped CUs finish 2003 with strong auto loan portfolios, despite auto manufacturers' continued 0% incentives and rebates. Read up on some of the latest CU auto loan news in a special report on pages 20-23.

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January 13, 2004

Life, Liberty and Credit Unions

See how Chip Filson's love for singing and passion for credit unions made a new patriotic CD a hit in credit union land. Page 6.

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January 13, 2004

Credit Union Auto Lending Stats at a Glance

Credit unions hold over $144 billion in outstanding auto loans - approximately 39% of the industry's $375 billion loan portfolio While credit unions have had continuing success with used auto loans, new auto loan growth is returning after zero growth in the first half of 2003.

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January 13, 2004

NADA: Internet Use by New Car Dealer Reaches Record High

MCLEAN, Va. - Not only are more consumers turning to the Internet to research and purchase vehicles, an increasing number of dealers are also using the Internet to make it earlier for consumers to car shop. An annual survey from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) found that 92% of...

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January 13, 2004

Long Island CUs Team Up with GrooveCar to Host Huge Car Sale

MELVILLE, N.Y. - Members of credit unions throughout Long Island are accustomed to seeing the GrooveCar logo on the doors of area dealerships letting auto shoppers know they are an official GrooveCar dealer and that credit union financing is available to members through them. For a 10-day period this month,...

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VISA, CFA Find Financial Difficulties a Fact of Life in Female-Headed Households

More Americans Resolve To Get Out of Debt Than To Lose Weight

MasterCard Starts To Tap Debit Flows

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Why Care What Pulse Thinks?

Card Payment Growth Continues to Accelerate; Debit Cardholders Tend to Be High Volume Users

Special Report: Auto Lending & Services

Life, Liberty and Credit Unions

Credit Union Auto Lending Stats at a Glance

NADA: Internet Use by New Car Dealer Reaches Record High

Long Island CUs Team Up with GrooveCar to Host Huge Car Sale