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Iain MacDonald's main job as director-general of the International Co-operative Association (ICA) based in Geneva, Switzerland, is to clarify the differences between co-operatives and business. He complained that the sector is mainly ignored by the media.

After a year on the job, World Council of Credit Union President Pete Crear feels he's "getting the hang" of the job as he told the 1,850 attendees at the opening general session of WOCCU's 2006 World CU Conference.

When John Hume, winner of the Nobel Peace Price, the Ghandi Peace Price and the Martin Luther King award, was asked what he was most proud of during a BBC interview, he replied helping start the Irish credit union movement. Hume founded the first Northern Ireland credit union in Derry...

or so-called sterile--reserves that credit unions and others hold at the Fed could mean capturing a lot of previously missed opportunity income. The Financial Services Regulatory Relief Acts (H.R. 3505 and S. 2856) would grant the Fed this authority. The original purpose of the reserves, NAFCU Chief Economist Tun Wai...

The PULSE EFT Association, a longtime leader in the ATM and EFT worlds that eventually became a subsidiary of the Discover Card brand, is 25 years old this month.

NASCUS President/CEO Mary Martha Fortney and former NASCUS Chairman Roger Little, deputy commissioner of the Michigan Credit Union Division, joined regulators from 17 countries as well as representatives from NCUA and CUNA at the World Council of Credit Unions Regulators Roundtable that was held during the WOCCU 2006 World CU...