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I enjoyed Mike Welch's Sept. 22 publisher's column, "Banks Have Contests; Why Not Credit Unions, Too?" I'm going to try to find a winning entry for one of the contest categories Welch mentioned in his piece so I can receive a complimentary subscription to Credit Union Times after I retire...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Credit Union Direct Corp., which developed and administers the Credit Union Direct Lending (CUDL) program, has obtained a Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS 70) audit report for controls related to its automated decisioning engine. The audit, says a CUDL statement, "attests to the accuracy of the...

MADISON, Wis. -The pilot program begun two years ago by Filene Research Institute encouraging credit unions to offer non-member check cashing services to add new members while also serving the "unbanked" is undergoing an overhaul and now includes a broad array of savings, loan and "wealth building" services. Formal debut...

WASHINGTON - As the open enrollment season kicks off, credit union staffers may find some significant changes to their benefit packages. According to Washington-based human capital consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide, 2005 will be marked by the following seven benefit offering trends: * New plan designs, but fewer options. Many...

ST. LOUIS - A new study by Maritz Automotive Research finds that auto buyers who complain about their vehicle quality or dealership experience and are happy with the way their complaints are handled by the dealership are more than 1.5 times as likely to be loyal to the dealership than...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Four credit unions, including two billion-dollar CUs, have extended their agreements with PSCU Financial Services' PayLynx online bill pay service. They are $1.7 billion DFCU Financial of Dearborn, Mich.; $562 million Lockheed Georgia Employees' FCU of Marietta; $124 million U.S. First FCU of San Mateo, Calif.,...

TAMPA, Fla. - In the credit union credit card processing realm it doesn't get much bigger than this. In a move which one employee said resembled a homecoming, the $4.2 billion SunCoast Schools FCU decided to switch processors from First Data Corporation and to leave the PSCU Financial Services cooperative....

WASHINGTON-CUNA's Get Out the Vote campaign caught the eye of television personality Andy Rooney, but not in a positive way, or maybe it was. On the Sept. 26 edition of 60 Minutes, the commentator pointed to CUNA's as well as other GOTV efforts and explained what a waste of time...