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SEATTLE - First Immigrant's Funding knew from the get go that it wanted to expand from offering just mortgage products to the immigrant communities in the city, to opening a financial that would provide them a wider array of services. In July, the mortgage lending company will celebrate the opening...

Watched any movies in Beta format lately? Didn't think so. Back when Beta and VHS were battling it out, few people chose Beta - leaving VHS the ultimate survivor. (At least until the advent of DVD, but that's another story.) What killed Beta wasn't inferior technology; in fact, most engineers...

COLUMBIA, S. C. - Last Sept. 11, USERS's senior managers were gathered with many of their clients for an educational conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Backup systems and operational continuity plans, of course, were something they all had in place, but no one could have expected the test they were about...

At the meeting, Navy Federal presented NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz with a report documenting Navy FCU's low-income efforts. The report not only highlighted statistics, but also specific Navy FCU programs aimed at assisting its lowest income members. Members with under $40,000 in income use a higher proportion of its...

WASHINGTON-Banks and thrifts have increased their services in some areas, but cut back in others, while at the same time boosting fees on some account and lowering others, according to the latest Federal Reserve Board Annual Report to the Congress on Retail Fees and Services of Depository Institutions. Congressman John...

Many questions have arisen from the Securities and Exchange Commission's stated intent to require credit unions to move their investment programs from Credit Union Service Organizations (CUSOs) to within the credit union. This confusion came as a result of enactment of banking modernization legislation (the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) and the National...

WASHINGTON - Representatives from the governments of South Africa and Zambia who were in Washington attending meetings with World Bank, participated in a World Council of Credit Unions-sponsored visit to U.S. credit unions and the NCUA, as part of WOCCU's continuing effort to expose government officials to the regulated nature...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Community America CU announced that it will move its headquarters to Lenexa, Kansas. Currently the CU's headquarters are located in two locations, one in Overland Park and another in Kansas City, Missouri. The moves are expected to be completed by June 17. It will unite 250...