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PLYMOUTH, Mich. - For the second year in a row, Community Financial staffers walked away with the championship trophy from the Community Literacy Council's annual Spelling Bee competition. This was the 14th year of the spelling bee competition and Community Financial has participated for the past five years. The champion...

PORT HURON, Mich. - In an unusual cooperation, the $146 million E&A Credit Union and the $5.5 million MPG Credit Union, headquartered in Romeo, Michigan, have joined forces to place an ATM in Romeo. The ATM is an E&A machine that sits on an MPG site. The machine bears the...

NORTH TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The Michigan Credit Union League Cooperative Advertising Forum has come up with a strategy to help get the credit union message out in 2005. With a recent approval for a $1 million pool of matching placement funds by the MCUL board, the Co-op Ad Forum has...

WASHINGTON-CUNA took advantage of the lame duck session to attend events welcoming in the new class of lawmakers. CUNA Legislative Affairs Manager Linda Gualtieri went to a meet and greet event where she spoke with incoming-Republican Representatives Mike Sodrel (Ind.) and Lynn Westmoreland (Ga.) before Thanksgiving. She also posed with...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-A recent legal opinion letter (04-0453) from NCUA Associate General Counsel Sheila Albin stated that federal credit unions may recover certain costs from investing in a life insurance product to fund an employee benefit, including cost of funds with in limits. She noted that section 701.19 exempts federal credit...

HOUSTON - Aldine Teachers Credit Union is getting a name/brand makeover to ring in the new year. The 52-year old credit union will now be known as InvesTex CU to better represent its growing membership, which includes several other area school districts. With the new tagline "Making Life Better", the...

CALGARY, Alberta - You could call it the grinch policy, but savvy employers insist a code governing holiday or other gifts makes good sense and at the very least can help avoid embarrassment. With the holiday season in gear, it's a policy credit unions will find helpful. After all, even...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - USERS Inc. has signed La Capitol Federal Credit Union of Baton Rouge, La., and Amarillo Community Federal Credit Union in Texas for 2005 conversions to the core processor's DataSafe In-House system. La Capitol FCU, with $252 million in assets and about 44,500 members, has been an...