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TAMPA, Fla. - It's hard for Wendell "Bucky" Sebastian to imagine how different his life would have been if he had stayed at the seminary he attended from 1958-1966 and became a priest, as he originally planned. For one thing, Sebastian would never have worked with Ed Callahan at the...

WASHINGTON-NAFCU's Board of directors recently approved a new committee structure that they feel will make the organization more responsive to its member needs and faster acting on federal credit union issues. "The changes we have approved for the 2003 association year will further streamline our current governance process while at...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar recently hosted a roundtable discussion with national Hispanic faith-based leaders at NCUA's headquarters as part of the agency's "Access Across America" initiative. The Latino and Hispanic population is the fastest growing population in the United States, Dollar said, and chartering new credit unions and expanding...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Parry, who has served as president/CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for the past 16 years will be among the speakers at CUNA's Economics & Investments Conference 2002 that will be held July 21-24 in San Francisco. Among the other speakers on the...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Credit unions learned some hard and valuable lessons from their fight to pass H.R. 1151, and probably none as important as doing whatever is necessary to make sure CUs never find themselves in the position again of not having ongoing relationships and dialogues with federal and state...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - It took state legislators nearly four years to pass a bill and work out the details of an organizational plan to put into effect a state constitutional amendment that was passed by voters in 1998 to reduce the size of the state Cabinet from six to three...

MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Credit Union is the first CU in the Madison, Wis.-area to be approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration to be an SBA lender. The status means CUNA CU can provide SBA-guaranteed loans to small businesses that might otherwise not be able to receive funds from...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - In an effort to assist credit unions in better serving members, the California Credit Union League's Diversity Committee produced an English-Spanish/Spanish-English glossary of financial terminology. The league also produced an orientation and training video on diversity. The 10-minute video, "Diversity is Good Business" was created by...