JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A $39 million, 6,500 member federal credit union in Florida is using card numbers, but not the cards themselves, to generate roughly $50,000 per month in interchange income, according to the credit union's CEO and the credit union's data processing firm. The processing firm, Indianapolis-based Remember Data...

WASHINGTON - Check cashers want some respect, and their trade association is working to make it happen. One of the Financial Service Centers of America's (FiSCA) chief policy goals is to change the prevailing opinion, among the public, elected officials and financial regulators, about check cashers. "When it comes down...

MADISON, Wis. - The credit union employee who started the petition drive to decertify the Office and Professional Employees Union Local 39 from the institution learned what she needed to do from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), according to Kim Sponem, president of the $238 million, 42,000-member institution. "We...

ORLANDO, Fla. - NCUA Board Chairman Dennis Dollar very gently scolded an audience of credit union directors, executives and volunteers attending CUNA's 2002 Symposium, arguing that the agency was more committed to allowing credit union make business loans to their members than most credit unions were to lending the money....

ORLANDO, Fla. - Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told an audience of credit union directors, executives and volunteers at CUNA's 2002 Symposium that during the crisis after the September 11 attacks he drew strength from some of his staff to keep going through the tragedy. He said whenever he...

WILMINGTON, Calif. - Credit unions with a lot of members who belong to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have begun battening down the hatches in the face of a ongoing labor conflict that observers say seems unlikely to end anytime soon. Over the weekend of September 28 and...

PEMBROKE, N.C. - Even as next year's appropriations for the U.S. Treasury's Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) hangs in the web of legislative and political conflict in Washington, leaders of one Native American tribe credit the program for helping their community take its first steps towards financial independence....

WAUKESHA, Wis. - The $568 million Landmark Credit Union wants to offer an alternative to payday loans, but it is having a hard time selling the alternative loans, according to Pat Ransom, vice president of marketing for the institution. The community chartered credit union has offered an alternative to payday...