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DENVER - Approximately six to eight credit unions are targeted for auditing by the IRS for Unrelated Business Income Tax, according to Colorado Financial Services Commissioner David Paul. "My staff visited with them (the IRS) a bit about what credit unions are, how they're organized, operated and so forth. We...

ST HELENS, Ore.- St. Helens Community Federal Credit Union wants U.S. armed forces personnel to know that despite the anti-war protests they may see or hear about, people in this tiny community support the American troops in the Gulf. "They see all the protests going on, especially in our area,"...

Rogue Federal Credit Union, Medford, Ore., has recently honored four employees who exemplify the credit union philosophy. This year the Rookie of the Year award went to Heston Charleton, special services counselor II; the Internal Service award to Sandra Wiuff, administration clerk; the External Service award to Conchita Moore, member...

BREMERTON, Wash. - Having to deal with staff members whose spouses or family members have been shipped overseas in the war against Iraq is prompting Kitsap Community Federal Credit Union to re-examine how it deals with its employees. "We're putting together information for our managers on how to manage employees...

LAS VEGAS -Nevada Federal Credit Union has launched a new Investment/Insurance division. Products and services offered will include financial and retirement planning, mutual funds, annuities, full service brokerage, life and disability insurance, wealth management and estate planning. Chris. A. Wible, CFP will head the new division, and Jeff D. Garret...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Here is some good news on the identity theft front - nearly all Americans are taking at least some steps to protect themselves from identity theft. A recent national survey conducted by legal information Web site FindLaw, reports that 98% of American adults take one or...

WASHINGTON-Following NCUA's March board meeting, some banking trade groups raced to issue statements vilifying the agency's new field of membership regulation and the member business lending proposal. American Bankers Association Executive Vice President Edward Yingling called NCUA's new field of membership policy an expansion of the credit union tax exemption...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The debate over whether state-chartered credit unions should, as Maryland's Commissioner of Financial Regulation advocated during CUNA's GAC, be allowed a private insurance alternative, or whether, as the NAFCU Board has opined, all credit unions should be required to be federally insured, shows no signs of abating....