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The ability of credit unions to provide international remittance services to immigrants in the U.S. benefits the immigrants, their families in their home countries and the credit unions themselves, explained CUNA Vice President David Grace before a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee.

With one quarter gone, 2007 has been good to the Financial Service Centers Cooperative. The nationwide shared branching network which is headquartered on the west coast announced that it has signed 20 new contracts with CUs representing over $1 billion in assets through April.

The NCUA Board will be facing some hot button issues for its next board meeting.

Before credit unions can set out on a path to grow membership, some critical, hard questions need to be answered first.

How do potential members tend to feel when they walk through a credit union's doors for the first time--welcomed, disengaged, uninformed and unsatisfied?

The New Jersey Credit Union League, roiled by last month's firing of President/CEO Robert S. Walls, was facing more fallout Thursday with sharp complaints by a departing director over procedures and policies governing trade group operations.