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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Long before most credit unions ever heard the phrase `member business lending' or NCUA had a regulation on the product, New Hampshire's credit union code allowed state-chartered credit union to offer member business loans. What can other credit unions considering venturing into MBL territory learn from their...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Credit Union League is crediting what it described as the "unprecedented grassroots effort" demonstrated by credit union staff, members and CU supporters throughout the state with helping to kill a bill in the state Senate that would have taxed community chartered credit unions with...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - So many of the people appearing in the pages of Credit Union Times are known for just one thing - the role they play in the credit union industry. But what happens when they're not conducting credit union business? In our new section, Beyond the...

HINESVILLE, Ga. - Elaine R. Tuten, chief executive of Fort Stewart Georgia Federal Credit Union here, knows how important war news is to her employees, which is why the TV in the CU's board room "is on all the time and we send out an alert to our staff to...

BOSTON-NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz warned attendees of the Massachusetts Credit Union League's Government Affairs Day Conference that state proposals to tax credit unions are spreading like an infectious disease. "The people-helping-people theme of this session is particularly timely with the movement to tax credit unions spreading from state to...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Banking William Schenck has authorized an investigation in to the state's check-cashing companies after his office received a report from an advocacy group that showed a series of violations committed by the largest check-cashing chain in Philadelphia, Currency One Inc. Among the violations...

WASHINGTON - The National Consumer Law Center and Consumer Federation of America released the findings of their report, "Credit Counseling in Crisis," on the "severe threat to consumers from a new generation of credit-counseling agencies," and the findings are sobering. The study found that, unlike most creditor-funded counseling agencies that...