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COLUMBIA, S.C. - According to a new Forrester Research report, the percentage of online consumers who get at least one e-statement has more than tripled in about 18 months or so. So that should amount to big savings for those financial institutions that no longer have to send costly paper...

ARLINGTON, Va. -Online banking continues a steady trend upward for Americans using the Internet. According to the most recent survey (taken November 2004 and released last month) conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, some 53 million individuals, representing 44% of Internet users and one-quarter of all adults...

LAKELAND, Fla. - Publix Employees Federal Credit Union is in the process of rolling out a series of high-tech solutions aimed at both improving member service and hardening network reliability while increasing internal efficiencies. At the heart of the effort are a phalanx of products from Cisco Systems, the major...

SALT LAKE CITY - Mutual bank conversions may be unnerving to a majority of credit unions with "greed" a motivating force behind some mutual savings bank conversions and yet the NCUA remains even handed in reviewing conversion bids, according to Region 5 Director Melinda Love. In remarks to the annual...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Keeping the good stuff in rather than the bad guys out is the idea behind a new security system undergoing scrutiny at Partners Federal Credit Union. Partners now is in the process of beta testing Compliance Commander, a regulated information monitor (RIM) from Intrusion Inc., a Dallas-area...

Two community bankers take NCUA to task for trying to limit CU charter options. Page 16.