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CHICAGO - With prospects of a court battle looming over funding of the Illinois agency regulating credit unions, state-chartered CUs were holding the line this month on making any move to apply for federal charters. Typical of CU sentiment was that of Illinois' largest, the $4.3 billion Alliant Credit Union,...

ATLANTA - The John H. Harland Company wants to help financial institutions deliver target messages through the checkbook. The program, HarlandImpact, is designed to help turn every check order into a cross-selling opportunity with targeted messages developed by combining a financial institution's marketing data with Harland's behavioral models. According to...

FLINT, Mich. - Who says a great benefits offering has to cost big bucks? Security Federal Credit Union has set its employees on the road to good health and they've never looked or felt better. "While it is hard to qualify if this directly affects health insurance costs, employees keep...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - During NASCUS' recently held 39th Annual Conference and Symposium, Sept. 12-15, elections were held for key NASCUS Board and NASCUS Council positions. Roger Little, deputy commissioner, Credit Union Division, Division of Financial Services of the Michigan Office of Financial & Insurance Services, was reelected NASCUS chairman. Mike...

SAN ANTONIO - Information technology security firm Digital Defense has named Larry Hurtado its new president and COO. Hurtado has been with the firm since 2002. He is a former president of International Operations for Elastic Networks, Inc., a firm he co-founded. Digital Defense now has 230 clients, mostly credit...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Could a large lump payment to a credit union CEO have led to his credit union choosing one merger partner over another? That is the one of the questions arising as, on September 20, the 4,700 members of the $24 million Progress Credit Union, headquartered in Warrenville,...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -If credit unions could pick one regulation to change what would it be? The Government Accounting Office's recent report on credit unions and alternative capital found that there is no pressing need to provide credit unions with alternative, sometimes known as secondary, capital options. Some credit...

Over the past several years, very quietly, a new breed of credit union CEOs have come on the scene. They are running many of the industry's largest, most innovative, most highly ranked, and most successful credit unions. They made them that way. In no small part they are also responsible...