Credit union-to-bank conversions have credit union leaders scrambling to find ways to prevent them, while advocates say CUs deserve charter choices. Read all about it on page 10.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Three native Africans will have financial support to attend a management training session thanks to scholarships from the African-American Credit Union Coalition. As part of its mentoring outreach, the AACUC recently approved $2,700 in scholarships for the native Africans to attend the African Management Institute. The World...

Dick Ensweiler's lecture to CU marketers about using the term "BANK" may have been sincere in his desire to depict credit unions as "different", but it was hardly inspiring or practical. When it comes to the products and services we offer credit union members, we are "banks" in the public...

PURCHASE, N.Y. - In a possibly precedent setting decision, MasterCard International has convinced a Federal Court to dismiss allegations that its policy of assessing additional charges on merchants who have an excessive number of chargebacks on their MasterCard accounts is illegal. MasterCard lawyers say the win may influence two other...