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PORTLAND, Ore. - Cliff Dias admits he's ready to hire the four interns currently working at Portland Teachers Credit Union. "I would put any of them to work today if they would want a full-time job," said Dias, president and chief executive officer of the largest credit union in Oregon...

Following the passage of the Credit Union Membership Access Act in 1998, nearly all of us, from NCUA and CUNA, the Leagues and many credit union CEO's reminded ourselves that we could not sit back again and wait for the next banker attack. We all understood that we had to...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -Sell the servicing for members' mortgages to a third-party provider? Not a chance, says Dave Toepp, president of Mortgage Center LC. It's not only something the CUSO wouldn't consider doing, "it's why members come to us in the first place," he says. It's that philosophy that has helped...

WASHINGTON - Keith Leggett, senior economist for the American Bankers Association and long-time credit union critic, predicted on the eve of CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference that the ongoing Enron scandal would significantly change the landscape for all financial institutions, including credit unions. "Enron's impact is going to be echoing and...

TOLEDO, Ohio - It wasn't the typical gift of flowers or candy but a recent credit union campaign raised a lot of warm feelings. This past Valentine's Day, the Northwest Ohio Chapter of the Ohio Credit Union League donated more than $4,000 to Family House, the largest homeless shelter in...

WASHINGTON - So much has changed on the credit union political scene in Washington. JoAnn Johnson and Deborah Matz have joined the NCUA Board, replacing Yolanda Wheat and Geoff Bacino. Some legislative issues, like bankruptcy reform, are the same, but new issues have emerged such as a regulatory relief bill...

WASHINGTON - CUNA's Project Differentiation, the effort encouraging credit unions to document the ways they serve their members, is either a practical way for credit unions to measure and understand their services or a "well intentioned" but insufficient approach to forestalling any CAP like requirements. Or both. It depends on...

CU Times Editor-in-Chief FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Dana FCU has always prided itself on being a provider of low-cost products and services to its members. It now has community development credit union status and that, says the $158.7-million CU's president, makes Dana's mission statement all the more important. While Fort...