Day Air Credit Union, Kettering, Ohio, has named Lisa Hughes business development specialist. Chaco Credit Union, Hamilton, Ohio, has named Matt Stolle chief financial officer. Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union, St. Paul, Minn., has promoted Brian Volkmann to director of real estate.

WASHINGTON-Credit union loan growth in the first half of the year is somewhat below last year's figures, but savings growth has dropped significantly from the first half of 2004. Year-to-date loan growth through June was 4.8%, down from 5.1% for the same period in 2004, according to CUNA's Monthly Credit...

LENEXA, Kan. - U.S. Central has named Jill Stockham as its new director of communications. Stockham replaces Roger Dick, who is no longer with U.S. Central. Stockham has a banking background. She most recently came from UMB Bank, a $7.2 billion bank located in Kansas City, Missouri.

WASHINGTON - Women and minority groups are becoming business owners much faster than the national average, according to the U. S. Census Bureau. From a just-released report, Preliminary Estimates of Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race: 2002 Survey of Business Owners, the number of all U.S....