• MEMBERS Development bears financial brunt to bring customizable Yodlee-powered aggregation piece to market

    MADISON, Wis. - Credit Union Times recently took a spin on MEMBERS Development Corporation's new aggregation piece, "View My Accounts." Sifting through the aggregation maze is getting tougher these days as a number of credit union groups have partnered with or struck marketing deals with aggregation providers. MEMBERS Development Corp....

  • Splitting NCUA/NUSIF would create new problems

    Credit union leaders, advocates and observers reliably devote attention to NCUA operating and cost structure issues at this time in the agency's cycle of budget consideration and approval. Some even suggest severing the NCUA from the NCUSIF will end the overhead transfer rate (OTR) debate. While thought provoking, dividing the...

  • Saving Steel

    As LTV Corp. - one of the nation's largest steel makers - faces bankruptcy, two credit unions deal with effects on its LTV employee-members. Pages 34-35

  • WEST

    Credit Union Association of Oregon, Beaverton, has appointed the following officers to its board: Dal King, chairman; Paul Williams, first vice chair; Doug Mountain, second vice chair; Ralph Goodwin, treasurer; Carol Cromwell, secretary; Joe Tofte, director; Georgene Arbon, director; and Sandy Hild,director. Vista Federal Credit Union, Burbank, Calif., has named...

  • Clarke American named 2001 Malcolm Baldridge Award winner by Secretary of Commerce

    SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Clarke American Checks Inc. was named by President Bush and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans as one of five recipients of the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the country's highest award for performance excellence and quality achievement. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given...

  • Short-term products reign, investment wish list revealed, 2Q of 2002 should be `robust,' NAFCU reports

    ARLINGTON, Va. - Credit unions continue to have shorter investment maturities as liquidity swells and hints of another Fed rate cut looms, according to NAFCU's latest findings. More than 55% of credit unions recently surveyed by NAFCU indicated that the maturity of their investment portfolios had shortened during the third...

  • Halvorsen After Hours

    Beyond the board room, U-Lane-O CU Director Robert Halvorsen takes to the skies and the rapids.....Page 30

  • Internal auditors must see bigger picture

    I enjoyed reading publisher Mike Welch's recent column on the potential of credit union internal auditors as an asset, and couldn't agree more with the concept and his conclusions. Certainly, these comments apply to the role of every internal auditor in every commercial institution, not just credit unions. However, as...

  • NCUA urges due diligence of third parties

    ALEXANDRIA, Va.-With credit unions doing more and more business, such as leasing and indirect lending, with third-party vendors, credit unions need to polish their due diligence routines. While many of the arrangements are beneficial to credit unions and their members, failure to exercise due diligence could spell disaster. "These arrangements...