BISMARCK, N.D. - Capping a 37-year career serving the industry, Kermit Larson, the president/CEO of the North Dakota Credit Union League, is retiring from full-time work at the end of the month. Larson, 63, who joined the North Dakota trade group as a consultant in 1989 and in 2002 was...

NEW YORK - A leading market research firm says that its surveys are showing that people without bank accounts are often still users of some sort of credit card, whether from a retail store, oil company or financial institution. Scarborough Research said its surveys of 200,000 adult consumers in 75...

FRISCO, Texas - Most credit unions have some sort of member relationship management system in place. And most are doing less with the data within it than they could, and thus missing opportunities to push new products and services out to their members. This was the rationale behind IntegraSys's recent...

MONTEREY, Calif. - The economic forecast for 2006 means further tightening of the belt for credit unions, but a bleak rate environment doesn't necessarily mean an impending recession, said Chief CUNA Economist Bill Hampel, as he spoke at the California Credit Union League's Big Valley Educational Conference. Overall, Hampel predicted...