LANSING, Mich. - Steve Winninger, CEO of State Employees Credit Union, readily recalls the day a Mini first captured his attention. A student at the University of Iowa in the mid 1960s, he was making the 90-mile drive back home to Waterloo when an odd little car soared past him....

NEW YORK - It didn't take William Porter more than a minute to realize changes were needed at Municipal Credit Union when he became CEO in 1981. As he walked off an elevator and into the hallway outside the credit union's only branch, located in a municipal building, he encountered...

VACAVILLE, Calif. - When you're big, and your smaller neighbor needs help, why not pitch in? That attitude backs efforts by Travis Credit Union to help launch a new credit union expected to open its doors in a few months to serve the area's Hispanic residents, and it bespeaks the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Starting Oct. 1, credit unions and other financial institutions must start verifying the identities of new members under the USA Patriot Act. In most cases, a Social Security number will play a key role. But what if the person who wants to join is an immigrant, a...

TAMPA, Fla. - If you apply for a job at MacDill Federal Credit Union, President/CEO Bob Fisher wants you to understand expectations are high. "This is not an easy place to work," he states. "We are very demanding of ourselves." He describes himself as impatient. "One of the things I...

LANSING, Mich. - A quick glance at the news shows Michigan sharing with other states a major economic crunch - a $1.7 billion dollar deficit; cuts slamming colleges, communities, arts; concessions sought from state workers. But John Kolhoff, assistant director of the Office of Financial and Insurance Services' Credit Union...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Okay, so the dot.com slump has hit Silicon Valley and times are tough. At Technology Credit Union, total membership stagnated last year as the flow of new members from sponsoring companies shrank by half. Consumer loan volume dropped. The ratio of loans to deposits shriveled to...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Thirty-one years ago Richard Rice faced an important career decision. He'd already graduated from Indiana University, joined the Army Reserves and completed his active duty. Rice had received two job offers. One, from Burroughs Corp. (now Unisys) would pay $725 a month. The other, from Teachers...