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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - For credit unions' loan portfolios and membership ranks, indirect lending seemed to kick into fourth gear this year as a major factor. But that activity may have been tempered for the second half of 2005 after NCUA put federally-insured credit unions on notice with its Risk Alert...

WASHINGTON-Representatives of CUNA, NAFCU, and NCUA all made the rounds to a variety of inaugural events-as well as co-sponsoring an event or two-celebrating President George W. Bush's swearing-in to his second term. Top officials from all three groups attended a number of the inaugural balls, including the Texas Black Tie...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Fresh off its announcement made at the end of 2004 that it was restructuring the organization and adopting a new collaborative CUSO business model, NACUSO spent 2005 offering new programs and organizing conference agendas to reflect the association's new mission and strategy. As part of the...

NASHIVILLE and SAN DIMAS, Calif. - The nation's largest corporate, WesCorp, and VolCorp announced merger plans earlier this year. The merger took many by surprise given that the $26 billion WesCorp is based in California, and the $1 billion VolCorp in Tennessee. It further proves that geography means very little...

WASHINGTON - The last year has been a busy one for comings and goings in the nation's capital in terms of important people to the credit union movement. In Congress, Representative Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.), a co-sponsor to the Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act, resigned his position after pleading guilty to...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - The ongoing national debate about volunteers gaining wider authority to guide trade group policy appeared to be winding up the year with a Washington State focus. That's because even though the issue of volunteers seeking more leadership clout in national and state trade groups was first...