TowerGroup, the Boston-based research and advisory firm that has partnered with CUNA to offer services to the credit union space, has just released a report on its analysis of the online banking services at the largest of the U.S. banks. Here are two tables from that report. The first shows...
ALBANY, N.Y. - Gov. George Pataki signed in to law the Student Financial Education Act, legislation crafted by the New York State Credit Union League and its State-Chartered Credit Union Advisory Group, that modifies current banking law and authorizes New York's 36 state-chartered credit unions to open and maintain student-run...
DUBLIN, Ireland - The new Registrar of Credit Unions in Ireland, Brendan F. Logue, expects to have a positive relationship with the credit unions he oversees. Logue firmly believes principles should drive regulators, as much as rules do. One of his basic principles is to be accessible to credit unions,...
MADISON, Wis. - One year after opening, CUNA Mutual Group's LoanLink Center is celebrating hitting several milestones concerning loan application and dollar volume. The LoanLink Center, a credit union-owned lending call center that provides 24/7 lending support was formed in October 2002 by CMG and APPRO Systems Inc., a leading...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - CNBS may be owned by credit unions but its services aren't just for credit unions any more. "At our planning session we were given the green light to go after any institution's business - banks, thrifts, insurance companies, etcetera," said CNBS President Brian Hague. "We've begun...
WASHINGTON-Representatives from CUNA met with White House officials to discuss their similar interests in faith-based and community outreach. CUNA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs John McKechnie and Vice President of Legislative Affairs and Senior Legislative Counsel Gary Kohn met Oct. 3 with Jeremy White, associate director of outreach for...
SAFE Credit Union, North Highlands, Calif., has reached a new milestone by hitting the $400 million mark in assets. As a thank you to members, SAFE CU celebrated in all branches with refreshments, gifts, and prize drawings.
Time for a potpourri look around the world of credit unions with comments on a variety of topics including a couple more on CUNA's recent Reno meeting. Add the word flexible to the many used to describe popular NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar. In keeping with CUNA's stated goal of getting...
DETROIT - Maxxar Corporation, well-known in credit union land for its telephony products, has formed an alliance with credit union data processor XP Systems, a Fiserv subsidiary, to offer its speech recognition and interactive voice response (IVR) technologies for XP Systems' XP2 product. The partnership includes the integration of Maxxar's...