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LOS ANGELES - It's almost an old story now. After 9/11 credit unions geared up their disaster recovery efforts. Here's a story of how one CU did it - in real time. Located in Los Angeles, the $480 million Farmers Insurance Group FCU already had earthquakes to worry about, but...

SPOKANE, Wash. and TULSA, Okla. - The Washington and Oklahoma credit unions leagues will be holding their 2002 annual conventions on Sept. 11 - one year to the day after the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. "It's definitely been a challenge to have our meeting fall...

WASHINGTON- As much as they did for anyone, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks prompted Pentagon Federal Credit Union to re-think its crucial data backup operations. So, it turned half a continent away, to Omaha, Neb., where a new dedicated hot site has been added to the big CU's existing call...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The focus on identity fraud expanded from a consumer problem to one of national security after Sept. 11, but despite the passage of new laws and development of new technologies, the challenge remains large. That's the take from Ariana-Michele Moore, an analyst for Boston-based Celent Communications, who...

ALBANY, N.Y. - As the corporate serving New York credit unions, which were the CUs most impacted by 9/11, Empire Corporate found itself under pressure to move quickly and efficiently to keep business moving as normal as possible. Here's an overview of what the corporate did that day and in...

MADISON, Wis - Although New York-based Municipal Credit Union could not have made a claim for insurance money to make up for its recently revealed $15 million loss to ATM fraud, and even though the U.S. Congress has yet to resolve the terrorism insurance issue, CUNA Mutual reiterated its commitment...