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IRVING, Texas - Believe it or not, but headaches may be sapping your credit union staffers' productivity. According to an AdvancePCS study entitled Lost Productive Time and Cost Due to Common Pain Conditions in the U.S. Workforce, common pain conditions including headaches, back pain, arthritis and other muscle and joint...

WASHINGTON-For its quarterly board meeting in December, CUNA plans to try a Webcast for efficiencies sake. Because the Dec. 11 meeting will be held in cyber space, travel expenses and nonproductive time will be much reduced, according to CUNA Senior Vice President of Communications Mark Wolff. He added that CUNA...

WASHINGTON - The Consumer Federation of America and Freddie Mac will release an analysis on Nov. 17 "Report on the Wealth of Hispanic Households" on the wealth and financial attitudes of Hispanics. Latest data collected by the Federal Reserve Board and new survey research show that Latinos are falling behind...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Kathryn M. Rospond has been named the Northeast correspondent for Credit Union Times. She will be covering credit union and financial services industry news items and feature stories throughout the region. Rospond, 33, is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University...

Auckland, N.Z. - Twenty-one New Zealand credit union mortgage programs are facing stiff new competition from the Kiwibank and its government-backed program that's offering first-time house buyers mortgages with no down payment. The Kiwibank claims it is "the totally New Zealand-owned bank, where the profits will stay in New Zealand....

ALEXANDRIA, Va.- Just a few days after the U.S. General Accounting Office released a study recommending NCUA better demonstrate how credit unions are serving the underserved, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia handed dismissed the lawsuit brought by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition against NCUA regarding its...

APPLETON, Wis. - Credit unions, banks, government agencies, the local public school district, businesses and the public came together here recently for one reason: to satisfy consumers' hunger for financial education. The first Fox Cities Money Conference, held Nov. 8 at Fox Valley Technical College, was a partnership involving a...

WASHINGTON-As of deadline last week, the Senate had not yet held a vote on H.R. 2861, the Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2004, though the legislation was debated on the floor. According to NCUA Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs Gail Galvan,...