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NEEDHAM, Mass. - Because radio frequency (RF) payment systems and RFID inventory tags are still in their infancy and often not fully understood by consumers, they have been subject to some occasionally nasty talk about violating consumer privacy. But they are two very different things. A recent report by TowerGroup...

WASHINGTON - With talk of Health Savings Accounts on the rise, CUNA will host an audio-conference on HSAs on August 10 from 2:00 -3:30 p.m. EST. Approved as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, HSAs are designed to help individuals save for medical and...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Mike Scheuerman has been named president of two corporate-owned CUSOs that could potentially play a key role in the creation of a national image exchange network. Scheuerman will lead Credit Union National Item Capture and CU eArchive Solutions, two CUSOs owned jointly by FirstCorp and Northwest Corporate....

WASHINGTON - Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders, the House of Representatives' only Independent, recently became the 62nd member of Congress to back the Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act (H.R. 3579). Sanders also recently spoke out in favor of the credit union tax exemption in a statement he had inserted into the...

MADISON, Wis. - May 2004 might go down in history as the most active month ever for credit union consolidation. According to CUNA's Monthly Credit Union Estimates, May saw the loss of 135 credit unions - the highest month-only decline ever. This decrease brought the total credit union count down...

Every summer about this time, a large part of the credit union world focuses in on the Annual Conference and Exhibition of NAFCU. And for good reason; it attracts a lot of credit union movers and shakers under one roof. And a lot important to credit unions happens there. This...

AVON, Conn. - COCC plans to pass the savings from Check 21 on to its processing clients by acting as an image-exchange broker, the company says. "Our strategy is to aggregate the outgoing check images, ship them electronically to the exchanges that offer the best funds availability and lowest processing...

WASHINGTON - Build it and they will come. Build it poorly and they won't come back. That's one message from consumers who participated in a Callahan & Associates Survey Consortium about their experience in using online loan applications. The online survey of 14,154 members of 15 credit unions found that...