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DALLAS-FORT WORTH - If everything stays on track, the $4 billion American Airlines FCU will roll out its credit card program to its 205,000 members in November of this year. When it rolls out the program, which has taken three months longer to put together than the credit union anticipated,...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - In an effort to creatively reach members some credit union marketers are turning to custom photography. With bankers working overtime in Virginia to strip away credit unions' nonprofit status, Richmond-based Call Federal Credit Union wanted to incorporate a political action scene that would reinforce the...

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Micropayments, in which consumer bank accounts are dinged electronically for such things as digital music downloads and cellphone ring tones, is in a growth period characterized by both rapid adoption and conflicting standards in need of a good shaking out. That's the take from TowerGroup, the financial...

WARRENVILLE, Ill. - Mid-States wants to help match up credit unions for loan participation deals. The corporate has launched its Loan Exchange Program, a Web-based system that matches buyers and sellers of loan participations. The buyers and sellers remain anonymous on the site. When a bid is accepted, Mid-States links...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-It is apparent that NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson and Board Member Debbie Matz come from different worlds. Johnson was raised on a farm in a rural town in Iowa, while Matz grew up in a New York City housing project. Johnson is a Republican who uses the title `chairman.'...

Banks and conversion consultants trash NCUA's reg governing the credit union-to-bank conversion process. Page 4.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Financial services companies overall are more optimistic than other organizations as they look ahead to IT spending in 2005, according to a new report from Forrester Research. Here's a quick look at one finding in the research and advisory firm's latest scan of 1,377 IT and business...

FORT WORTH, Texas - For one credit union in the Lone Star State, keeping a tight focus on expectations and execution has resulted in what's sometimes seen as the brass ring of financial services technology: a successful CRM deployment. Last fall, $550 million EECU deployed the Synapsys platform from its...