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The Colorado/Wyoming credit unions are showing consumers "There is a Better Way" to bank.

Using employee incentives and a corps of "retention specialists," the $3 billion Kinecta Credit Union is scoring sharp gains in membership retention, attendees at the annual Marketing Association of Credit Unions conference were told Thursday.

Legislative language to expand the Subchapter S option for community banks passed the House last night as part of a separate measure to fund military operations.

The Arizona Credit Union League announced today that it has chosen Scott Earl, CUNA vice president of league relations and the former president/CEO of the Utah League of Credit Unions, as its top new staff manager.

Des Moines-based Community Choice Credit Union won the top prize in the Marketing Association of Credit Unions' 2007 Awards Competition, which was announced Thursday during the group's 21st annual conference here.

Democrat Christopher Carney (Pa.) has signed on to the ever-lengthening list of co-sponsors to the Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act (H.R. 1537).