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PHOENIX. - In a break from negative economic news in the business press, Desert Schools FCU has managed to win some favorable media attention for what the CU considers its exceptional loan growth over the last year, much of it coming from mortgages and home equity. In front page articles...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Underscoring "financial preparedness" for its military members amidst the nation's new war footing, the $640 million Service Credit Union here wasted little time after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack to cut loan rates and offer favorable CD terms. The move by SCU appeared typical for defense CUs...
DENVER-Ask David Maus to describe his industry legacy as he steps down as CUNA Chairman and he'll give you two responses: "passion" and "political activism." To be sure, his associates at CUNA and at credit unions across the country say the contributions of this Denver CU president to the movement...
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Competition among check vendors, which heated up early this year with big price breaks offered credit union leagues on the East Coast, shows no signs of abating into 2002 as one supplier, Minneapolis-based Deluxe Financial Services Corp. makes a spirited pitch for CU business. The Deluxe move...
SALT LAKE CITY - It will be a kind of "credit union welcome mat" that greets the 110,000 visitors who come trouping through the Salt Lake City International Airport next February for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Relying on the notion that `first impressions count,' a CU coalition here, which holds...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Big banks are operating their personal trust business "on remote control," and so Colorado credit unions stand a good chance of carving out new business, according to a Colorado Springs CU executive drawing on experience as a bank president. Charles Emmer, president of the $1.3 billion...
DENVER - Using the cooperative approach, Colorado credit unions are moving swiftly to expand their reach into personal trust services by opening a new CUSO-chartered trust company, Members Trust Co. of Denver, slated to open offices by the latter part of October or in November. A major roadblock to chartering...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Shared branching may at last be grabbing a toehold in New Mexico with plans under study to set up the state's first facilities "in three to four months." That was the word of the New Mexico Credit Union League which is considering signing up with a service...
SALT LAKE CITY - On the job for the Utah League of Credit Unions for less than two months, Pete Suazo, a leading Utah legislator and called "the most prominent Latino in the state," was killed in a tragic all terrain-vehicle accident August 19. The 50-year-old Suazo, a state senator...
HELENA, Mont. - That "super regional" linkup of four West Coast credit union leagues to share products and services is triggering plenty of discussion among credit union boards and league staffers across the Mountain States and Midwest, but the Montana Credit Union Network, for one, has no plans now to...
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