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SPOKANE, Wash. - Puedo cualificar para una hipoteca? That's Spanish for "can I qualify for a mortgage" and it's a question that SharperLending LLC hopes to help its 17,000 client lenders, including credit unions and banks, answer. SharperLending provides Web-based bundling for ordering, storing and managing mortgage products from initial...

SEATTLE - What's in a name? A lot, actually, when you're trying to make sense of the thousands of entries compiled each day by the software keeping track of who's coming and going on your Internet site. That was the biggest challenge faced by Ken Kinloch and his colleagues at...

TAMPA, Fla. - Rick Woods got the word he was moving to Tampa in a most unusual way - he'd been traded. Woods, now senior vice president of sales and a partner in CastleGarde, a Tampa-based credit union IT security services provider, was a pro football player in 1987, a...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - If your membership is as tech savvy as Motorola Employees CU's is, you have to find new tech savvy ways to serve them. In late 2003 the $485 million MECU decided to give its members the ability to move money in and out of their credit union...

The MBL rule was a hot topic of NCUA's April board meeting. See page 10.

Reader feedback pours in (page 16). Directors spout off on big picture issues (page 22). Billion dollar Allegacy FCU's CEO's "village" concept (page 39).

DAYTON, Ohio - LexisNexis, a provider of legal, news and business information, has recently revealed that the number of consumers potentially at risk for identity theft has jumped from 31,000 to 310,000. London-based publisher and data broker Reed Elsevier announced that its subsidiary LexisNexis had identified 59 incidents of potentially...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Local think firm Financial Insights' latest survey finds that identity theft incidents have been taking a toll on financial institutions and their member relationships. According to the survey, some 60% of consumers are concerned about identity theft and such concerns have prompted close to 6% of those...