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LOS ANGELES - Smart card supplier Oberthur Card Systems and Litton PRC, a smart card integration firm, have been awarded a contract to supply an additional 600,000 Common Access ID chip cards to the Department of Defense (DoD), bringing the total to 700,000 cards for the past year. The chips...

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has expressed his interest in naming conferees to the bankruptcy reform legislation, but he will not be able to until the Senate reorganization is complete, which does not look so promising. According to CUNA Vice President and Senior Legislative Counsel Gary Kohn, "Hopes of...

WASHINGTON-As CUNA President and CEO Dan Mica celebrates his five-year anniversary with CUNA July 1, he's looking to the future. Not only is he examining CUNA's future, but also his own, and he sees himself with CUNA for the next five years. "In my first five years at CUNA, any...

DALLAS - Word is spreadin' like brushfire! A Mecca in Texas: three unlikely pardners-all sheriffs in the financial services industry-gangin' up, blazin' a trail, formin' a posse, and aimin' to ambush technology. Why, it's unheard of in these parts! Casting off those Lone Ranger masks, the Texas Credit Union League,...

HONG KONG - The Asian Credit Union Forum 2001 will be held September 21-22 in Hong Kong. The two-day conference is sponsored by the Association of Asian Credit Unions (ACCU) and hosted by the Credit Union League of Hong Kong. The theme of this year's conference is the "Power of...

WALLINGFORD, Conn. - The corporate CU network as it's known has become more competitive in recent years according to many of its leaders, but cooperation is still alive and well - Constitution State Corporate CU is showing that. The $1 billion Constitution State Corporate CU formed SmartSource Solutions, a CUSO,...

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CARSON CITY, Nev. - Gov. Kenny Guinn signed into law a bill supported by the Nevada Credit Union League that gives the commissioner of the Financial Institutions Division "wildcard" authority to grant state-chartered credit unions parity in their powers with federal credit unions. S.B. 330 was introduced by state Sen....