One of the personal joys of writing a weekly column of opinion for Credit Union Times every single week since April, 1990, is both getting candid reader reactions, but also observing the emergence of developments related to the various topics covered here. For example, NAFCU's CEO Fred Becker took me...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The credit union industry has lost one of its true great leaders in W.B. (Ben) Hawkins, a longtime CEO of Teachers Credit Union. Hawkins, 80, served as president/CEO and treasurer of TCU from 1962 to 1987, and was a member of the board at the time...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - For the past 37 years, David L. Chatfield's world has revolved around credit unions. He began his credit union involvement in 1965 as a volunteer elected official of a small credit union in Colorado. Three years later, he joined the CUNA Mutual Insurance Group as a...

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv has partnered with FSV Payment Systems Ltd., Houston, to offer stored-value cards to Fiserv financial institution clients. The offering, called PAYCHEK PLUS!, includes card issuing and production, online authorization processing, settlement, reporting and customer service. "We've seen a lot of attention focused recently on the unbanked...