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PASADENA, Calif. - The venerable Dick Johnson is back with an official credit union role. Johnson is now serving as a director for the $2.7 billion Wescom CU. Johnson, the longtime CEO of WesCorp who retired in 2002, is filling a vacancy left by a Wescom board member who retired...

NASSAU, Bahamas - The World Council of Credit Union is expecting more than 1,000 people to show up at its 7th International Credit Union Leadership Institute and Annual General Meeting, being held this week at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Aug. 1-4. WOCCU had initially expected 800 attendees. Registrants...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In this era of rampant identity theft, the last thing a credit union wants is for its member data to fall into the wrong hands. That's what potentially could have happened recently when a well-known credit union marketing firm had one of its computers stolen that contained...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson announced that the agency would be holding the second in a series of Access Across America Economic Empowerment Summits in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Sept. 13. "The summit will bring together the public and private sectors to discuss the important issues of economic...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Though NCUA has only approved eight TIP-trade, industry, or profession-charters since their inception last year, the pace appears to be increasing. NCUA's regions approved four TIPs last year and the same so far in 2004. As of the end of June, according to NCUA's Insurance Report of...

HONOLULU - The $24 billion WesCorp and the $672 million HawaiiUSA FCU have formed a new check processing CUSO that will be focused on helping Hawaii CUs benefit from image exchange brought on by Check 21. Pacific Processing Partners, LLC will provide image-enabled check processing services for 54 credit unions...

VANCOUVER, B.C.-The alarming rate of spending and bankruptcies among young adults demonstrates the need for greater financial literacy efforts, NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson told participants in NAFCU's 37th Annual Conference. Johnson said it may be the teacher in her, but "I'm making financial education a priority of my chairmanship." She...

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Baxter Credit Union will deploy a back-office image processing and check truncation platform from TWS Systems that will help the $880 million Illinois CU prepare for Check 21, the company said. The credit union plans to fully implement IMAGECENTER before the Oct. 28 official enactment of the...