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Glad to see Credit Union Times is planning to spend some time reviewing the competitive landscape credit unions face everyday with their new "News of the Competition" regular feature (CU Times, May 30). Frankly, it's about time. I see a strong need need for credit unions to focus on the...
WASHINGTON-According to data recently collected by CUNA, credit unions are taking over an increasing portion of the financial institutions market share. Of federally insured financial institutions, banks still hold the vast majority of the market with 78.9%. Thrifts represent a distant second with 15.5% of the market. Credit unions, while...
WASHINGTON-NAFCU President and CEO Fred Becker has been elected to a one-year term on the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) board of directors at its recent annual meeting. "I'm proud to be elected to a leadership position at the National Cooperative Business Association," Becker said. "I will be representing the...
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Five months after it began the rulemaking process, the state Division of Credit Unions has finalized its rule increasing the rate of assessments and fees paid to the division by credit unions. The rule takes effect on June 23, 2001. It provides for three successive increases between...
Exclusive coverage of The World Council of Credit Unions' 2001 International Conference and Annual General Meeting held in Ireland recently is found on pages 20-21. Credit Union Times' Overseas Correspondent Donna Lane Nelson was on-hand in Ireland to cover the event.
NEEDHAM, Mass. - Those credit unions that have jumped to the leading edge and started offering wireless banking services will be pleased with the results of just-released TowerGroup research. The research shows that by 2005 the number of U.S. mobile payments users is expected to rise to 3.5 million and...
ONTARIO, Calif. - To help slow down the upward trend of check fraud, CO-OP Network, the largest credit union electronic funds transfer network, will offer a new fraud detection/prevention product -Deposit Chek. In less than ten seconds, Primary Payment Systems' Deposit Chek dial-up MICR reader can detect everything from lost,...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Credit union best practices in indirect lending will be the focus of CU Direct's annual Auto Lending Symposium that will be held June 20-21 at the Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas. At a luncheon on June 21, the company will recognize participating credit unions for having...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - ePSCU, the e-commerce unit of PSCU, a credit/debit/EFT CUSO owned by 510 CUs, held its first-ever Internet Forum recently. Just a year old, ePSCU, which offers e-com products such as electronic bill payment, has 150 CU clients. "ePSCU is very much for real and here to...
St. Anne's Credit Union, Fall River, Mass., has appointed the following employees: Monique Grace, vice president of lending; Richard Beaulieu, vice president of branch administration; Robert Dumas, vice president of MIS; Janice Barrette, senior loan administrator/secondary market officer; John Mitchell, director of human resources; Darlene Sampson, Somerset branch manager; Deborah...
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