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CUSOs are not only increasing in number, but regulatory and legislative changes are expanding their ability to provide new products and services to members. Catch up on CUSO news in a special report on pages 20-23.

Albany, New York-based credit unions teamed up at Empire Corporate FCU headquarters and took this year's ICU Day theme of "Heart of Our Communities" literally by sponsoring a blood drive. This is the fourth consecutive year the corporate and credit union employees have rallied the community to donate the "gift...

ARLINGTON - This year is the last one in the foreseeable future in which the National Credit Union Foundation will make grants to individual credit unions, according to a Foundation executive, opting instead to let state leagues and foundations fund more discrete efforts. That change, combined with reductions in federal...

Maine Credit Union League Director of Corporate Services Tom Gavin fills his plate with food from around the world during the League's Fourth Annual Taste the World event. Kicking off ICU Day it featured food from 15 countries while raising nearly $200 for the Ending Hunger Campaign. In addition MCUL...

ICU Day inspired AmeriChoice Federal Credit Union to join in the local Mechanicsburg Halloween Parade. This was the first time that the credit union entered a float in the parade competition and Team AmeriChoice FCU staffers used over 10,000 sheets of tissue paper to make a red, white, and blue...

MADISON, Wis. - Credit unions better start thinking ID theft prevention based on recent history. In its continuing battle against identity theft, Heritage Credit Union has just made it easier for members to access their credit reports and scores. HCU has added TransUnion's True Credit to its Web site links....

RALEIGH, N.C. - For many years, the chief financial officer had a well-defined place in the credit union pecking order. Sitting right below the CEO, the CFO was in charge of financial functions like accounting and reporting, planning, risk management, and corporate finance. Today, the CFO is emerging as the...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. - The Thurston Union of Low Income People Credit Union, a start-up credit union committed to working with low-income county residents, hopes that it has finally overcome its last hurdle to opening its doors. State and federal regulators recently completed the new CU's first audit and now...