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Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Chief Counsel and First Senior Deputy Comptroller Julie L. Williams - shown here with Assistant Treasury Secretary Wayne Abernathy - defended the agency's recent preemptions of state anti-predatory lending laws at America's Community Bankers Government Affairs Conference last week. She noted that when...

BETHPAGE, N.Y. - Title insurance CUSOs are also hitting New York with Bethpage Management Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bethpage Federal Credit Union, forming its new CUSO named Land Bound Services, LLC. Land Bound Services, LLC will provide title insurance services for residential and commercial properties. "We are offering...

NEW CASTLE, Del. -DELCU Financial Services, LLC, a CUSO owned by 15 Delaware credit unions and managed by the Delaware Credit Union League, is getting into the title insurance business. DELCU has partnered with Parsippany, New Jersey-based Amerititle Agency Inc. to form Members Title Agency, which will be equipped to...

MADISON, Wis. - Credit unions looking for a competitive edge may want to take another look at their health care benefits. According to the CUNA E-Scan 2003-2004 Credit Union Staff Benefits Survey credit unions with competitive employee health care and benefits packages place themselves in the best position to both...

PHILADELPHIA - If PFCU Services LLC President/CEO Mark Craven had to do it all over again, he wouldn't change one thing in launching the agency. "It was challenging opening our doors after the events of 9/11 and maybe 2002 was not an ideal time, but we've had good solid success...

WASHINGTON-The flow of credit unions converting to mutuals is "alive and well," Office of Thrift Supervision Deputy Director Rick Riccobono told his audience at America's Community Bankers Government Affairs Conference. He told the bankers that they would probably see many smaller credit unions and a few larger ones make the...