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WASHINGTON - Check cashers want some respect, and their trade association is working to make it happen. One of the Financial Service Centers of America's (FiSCA) chief policy goals is to change the prevailing opinion, among the public, elected officials and financial regulators, about check cashers. "When it comes down...

Security of customer financial information, particularly data in motion such as e-mail, is a top priority for financial executives. This is in part due to privacy legislation such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which provides for civil and criminal penalties for failing to secure customers' financial data, and an overall heightened...

CORNING, N.Y. - After 18 months of searching, Corning Credit Union has tapped its own Anne V. Crowley as its new president. With the promotion, Crowley is looking forward to spending the next few years preparing to add her name to the growing list of women CEOs in credit union-land....

Federation of Independent Credit Counseling Organizations, a national trade association representing credit counseling agencies, has named Robert H. Wiorski executive director. Emick Howard & Seibert, Inc., an architecture, interior design, and strategic facility planning firm, has named Russell Thomas design staff architect. Legg Mason Wood Walker, Incorporated, an investment banking...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The federal court that is hearing the complaint of a coalition of banking associations, credit card issuers and credit union associations has agreed to roll back the schedule for the litigation by roughly a month. The preliminary injunction against the California credit card disclosure law continues while...

PLANO, Texas - IT security needs to be a multi-faceted, dynamic, evolving process for it to work, according to most experts. EDS here is giving CUs a firewall product that has about as much of that as possible in one product, says the company. EDS has teamed with Astaro, Burlington,...

"A state-chartered credit union's ability to choose whether it wants to be federally or privately insured is the basis of the dual chartering system. This option is the only thing that makes having the choice of regulator valid." -Mike Litzau, president/CEO, Colorado Central CU, Arvada, commenting on the state's Division...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA Board Member Deborah Matz will keynote New York City's Financial Literacy Day celebration October 18 to be held at Union Settlement Federal Credit Union in East Harlem. Matz will also be touring the credit union and holding a roundtable with local community development credit union leaders. The National...