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ARLINGTON, Va. - It took about a year and approximately $150,000 for NAFCU to get its new Web face up and running. NAFCU recently launched a revamped version of its Web site at www.nafcu.org. It contracted with Active Matter, a Fairfax, Virginia-based Web development firm to bring the new site...

DUBLIN, Ireland - What happens when a credit union league's members are furious with the league, so furious they threaten to withdraw? In Ireland they establish an independent commission to recommend solutions. In a two-day meeting June 8th and 9th at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, 1,000 delegates from Irish...

MADISON, Wis. - "The world." With these words Arthur Arnold, CEO of the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), described what credit unions are doing worldwide in the broadest terms. Credit unions in undeveloped countries are still fighting battles that credit unions in other countries have already won. CUs in...

INDIANAPOLIS - Trusting its own for the brainpower while going to the leader in medical databases for computing punch has turned out to be a prescription for success for FORUM Credit Union. The $585 million CU created its own consumer loan application and home banking solutions, each using InterSystem Corp's...

Watched any movies in Beta format lately? Didn't think so. Back when Beta and VHS were battling it out, few people chose Beta - leaving VHS the ultimate survivor. (At least until the advent of DVD, but that's another story.) What killed Beta wasn't inferior technology; in fact, most engineers...

COLUMBIA, S. C. - Last Sept. 11, USERS's senior managers were gathered with many of their clients for an educational conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Backup systems and operational continuity plans, of course, were something they all had in place, but no one could have expected the test they were about...

See what a departing credit union marketing veteran has to say about CUs' marketing efforts, and the growth of marketing at CUs...page 26

Judging from the technology advances in the checking industry, share drafts aren't going to be going away any time soon. Read about some of the initiatives being taken in a special report on pages 18-20.