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Byline: Lisa Freeman Marine CU, La Crosse, Wis., is buying five branches from Milwaukee-based Bank Mutual. In a joint release, the $690 million credit union and $2.6 billion bank said [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- It may be a cooperative movement, but getting credit unions behind the same cause is often more akin to herding cats. Few people know that better than [...]

RARITAN, N.J. -- A number of credit unions have received notice that Bank of America is shutting down accounts the CUs had come to rely on as an important source [...]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Gov. Matt Blunt is expected to sign into law a bill that credit unions hope will bring an end to the field of membership lawsuits in [...]

ONTARIO, Calif. -- Consolidation to a single credit union switch is one step closer with CO-OP Financial Services' purchase of a controlling interest in shared branching entity CU Service Corp [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Credit Union Commission moved one step closer to changing the state's credit union-to-bank conversion rules to ensure greater opportunities for members to have input in [...]

LUTHERVILLE, Md. -- First Financial FCU is throwing out a safety line to members who are misusing its courtesy pay program, and who migh also otherwise reach out to predatory [...]

WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- Mid-States Corporate FCU and Empire Corporate FCU are exploring a potential merger that would create an $8.5-billion entity serving some 25% of the nation's natural-person credit unions. [...]

NEW YORK -- Two major card issuers, American Express and Bank of America, have introduced two different, competing card programs that share a common strategy: reward users by helping them [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- State Employees CU is rolling out a member ID card program in an effort to reduce fraud and provide members with more personalized service. 'We looked at [...]

TINKER AFB, Okla. -- CU: Tinker FCU Category: Core Conversion The funny thing about technology is, sometimes the human factor is even more important than the technology itself. That's exactly [...]

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. -- CU: Red Rocks FCU Category: Mortgage Lending When Red Rocks FCU decided it was time to initiate a purchase-money first-time homebuyer loan, it realized it needed [...]

WAYNESBORO, Va. -- CU: Dupont Community Category: Credit Cards When DuPont Community Credit Union decided it was time to goose its credit card portfolio, not only did the credit union [...]

HARRISBURG, Penn. -- Pennsylvania State Employees CU has a lot of almost everything: 305,000 members in all 67 counties of the state, $2.5 billion in assets, 500 full-time employees and [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- Heritage Credit Union knew something was wrong with its 50% loan denial rate. But what it didn't know was that the journey it took to change that-which [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- One multi-billion-dollar credit union that investigated what a conversion to a bank charter would mean to its members said it could not find any value in doing [...]

HARRISBURG, Penn. -- When it comes to politics, one credit union here has decided to step up to the plate and not wait for the kill-or-be-killed scenario going on in [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Although Congress was in recess last week, the House Subcommittee on Rural Enterprise, Agriculture and Technology held a special hearing here with Arkansas FCU CEO Hank [...]

MARGATE, Fla. -- While most credit unions are contemplating indirect lending as a way to boost auto loans, City County CU decided it wanted to go direct-very direct. So direct, [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- When Annette Barwick joined the board of Suncoast Schools FCU, very few of the volunteers made the trek to Washington, D.C. to attend CUNA's GAC and be [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- The FBI and the New Orleans Police Department are still on the hunt for three men who kidnapped a credit union teller from her home and held [...]

CUNA Mutual Group expects to file suit against BJ's Wholesale Club and Fifth-Third Bank on behalf of some 300 of CMG's policyholder CUs who sustained losses when credit card information [...]

Ubiquity Bank, the virtual bank chartered by Prospera Credit Union as a means of serving people living outside of the CU's provincial charter, won't celebrate its first birthday for a [...]

When Bob Lestina, CEO at Heritage Credit Union here, set off to to Thailand and Indonesia it was to examine the viability of sportswear manufacturer Adidas establishing credit unions or [...]

With mortgage rates expected to inch up, credit unions are struggling with how to handle their mortgage portfolios and avoid exposure to interest rate risk. Offering some answers were three [...]

Even in paradise, there are snakes. Though CUNA CEO Dan Mica tried to avoid bashing banks, in keeping with the Aloha Spirit of the host city of CUNA's Future Forum, [...]

Community First CU here has the dubious honor of having been through three of the four hurricanes that have ravaged the state of Florida in the last six weeks, making [...]

The Florida Credit Union League knew something about hurricanes before. But now the league has become something of an expert at disaster planning and recovery. 'We are not a disaster [...]

Energy First CU's 'Slam Dunk Services' promotion has been seeing nothing but net-net increases, that is, in loans, checking accounts and new members. The credit union has tied itself in [...]

Many credit unions have in recent years adopted a more retail 'look and feel' in their branches, removing the traditional teller line, providing a play area for children, and even [...]

It was only natural that Energy First CU, which was originally sponsored by the local gas company, should participate in a promotion of the new natural gas vehicles (NGV). 'Our [...]

Examiners are asking to see credit unions' select employee group business plans, which is a problem for many -because they don't have one, suggested one SEG development consultant. 'Examiners are [...]

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the state regulator's ruling that quashed Postal Community CU's attempt to convert to a federal mutual savings bank. Thomas Curry, who was the [...]

For a guy who started out working out of a 10'x12' shack in back of a motorcycle plant, Dick Ensweiler hasn't done too badly for himself. This week he will [...]

A credit union that wasn't even founded until 1981 and didn't start serving companies outside its sponsor until 1996 is making up for lost time. The nearly $1-billion Baxter Credit [...]

Redstone FCU and local police are still investigating how a 'fine, white powdery substance' came to be in one of the CU's drive-up canisters at the branch here, forcing the [...]

Motor Parts FCU significantly increased the yield and penetration rate of its credit card portfolio using a strategy that some in the industry might consider counterintuitive: it stopped outsourcing credit [...]

New England credit unions are gearing up for another onslaught of angry bank customers looking to become credit union members in the wake of the FleetBoston-Bank of America merger announced [...]

The Check Truncation Act, the new law better known as Check 21 that industry experts are calling the single biggest event in the history of item processing, has some suggesting [...]

If nothing is certain except death and taxes, how can credit unions be expected to plan for the future? In this, the second part of a two-part series, The Credit [...]

The best way to get in the newspaper and on the radio station? Own them. Chocolate Bayou Community CU doesn't exactly own a newspaper or radio station, but a special [...]

The Louisiana Credit Union League is keeping a close watch on the Louisiana Bankers Association (LBA) after the bank trade group listed 'credit union competition' as a primary issue for [...]

Tampa Bay FCU found a way to support one of its SEGs, get involved in its community and get its name out to the public all in one fell swoop: [...]

Credit unions from the storm-torn Mid-Atlantic region reported having 'dodged a bullet' when Hurricane Isabel caused extensive flooding, wind damage and power outages. 'We're happy to have weathered the storm [...]

The 'Privacy Week' activities that U of C FCU will introduce this week are just one part of a larger effort to position the credit union as an unbiased source [...]

When you think of venture capitalists, credit unions don't typically come to mind. But two local credit unions here are seeking to change that. Sunmark FCU and State Employees FCU [...]

Credit unions bucked the economic trend that lead most other executives to see smaller raises this year, with CU CEO salaries growing at a faster rate than their counterparts in [...]

With banks' deep pockets and aggressive investments in technology, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the very first financial institution to not only have a web presence [...]

Perhaps indicative of the financial strains airlines are under, Northwest Airlines startled its long-time credit union by announcing it would sever relations with NWA FCU, after the credit union refused [...]

You can be all things to all people. Or at least that's what Fort Knox FCU here is trying to do. And seeing as how the CU has been among [...]