While Xerox FCU and Eastern Financial Florida CU fixed their cyber squatting problem, City County CU of Fort Lauderdale, Florida is currently dealing with it. As these Web site screen shots show, when visitors go to www.cucounty.org they are visiting the actual CU's site, but at www.cucounty.com is a squatter...

WASHINGTON-CUNA suggested some admittedly burdensome software changes so all Automated Clearinghouse users could continue to use Social Security Numbers instead of eliminating or masking their usage as NACHA has proposed. CUNA Associate General Counsel Mary Dunn and Senior Regulatory Counsel Catherine Orr explained in the organization's official comment letter that...

WASHINGTON-CUNA Chief Economist Bill Hampel took on American Bankers Association Senior Economist Keith Leggett one-on-one regarding credit unions' tax-exempt status before the National Council of State Legislatures in San Francisco last week. On July 22, Hampel outlined four simple reasons for the state lawmakers why credit unions are exempt from...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-More than 12.5 million potential members in underserved areas have been added to credit unions' fields of membership through Access Across America so far this year, according to NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar. The agency's mid-year statistics show that through June 30, 2003, 90 federal credit unions in 31 states...