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WASHINGTON - Helping software learn while learning a good bit themselves about what credit union members want and need to know is a hot activity for some folks at Callahan & Associates right now. The advisory firm has contracted with Fuze Digital Solutions of Bellevue, Wash., to deploy Fuze MemberLink,...

WASHINGTON - As the deadline to file Federal tax returns draws steadily closer, 25,000 low-income Americans who apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit will face additional checks of their data and returns before they receive their credit. The Internal Revenue Service estimated that 21 million taxpayers claimed the EITC...

WASHINGTON-In a meeting with Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Wayne Abernathy, CUNA thanked him for his "steadfast" support of credit unions' tax exemption and his commitment to reforming Prompt Corrective Action for credit unions. Though CUNA Associate General Counsel Mary Dunn said she could not share further the details...

MADISON, Wis. - Mexico's largest credit union is one step closer to a computer system that will connect its 326 branches. Through the World Council of Credit Unions' People to People Partnership, Mexico's Caja Popular Mexicana (CPM) discussions are underway to implement a new computer system that will centralize the...

DUBLIN, Ohio - Does the merger of the North and South Dakota credit union leagues and the pending consolidation of the Washington CU League with the Credit Union Association of Oregon, spell the makings for a trend in regionalization among credit union leagues? League presidents Credit Union Times spoke with...

WASHINGTON-Bankers' "latest round of whining and belligerency" demonstrates their misunderstanding - or outright distortion - or the facts about credit unions, CUNA Chairman Dick Ensweiler wrote in a March 12 Letter to the Editor appearing in the American Banker. "The banks repeatedly and loudly carp that credit union competition is...

WASHINGTON - Allen Fishbein, director of Housing and Credit Policy for the Consumer Federation of America has added his name to the growing list of opponents including members of Congress, State Attorneys General, state bank supervisors and state regulators, who have criticized the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...

As hard as it might be for today's full-time management level marketing professionals currently working for credit unions to believe, at one point there was no such thing as credit union marketing. In fact, to many of those then involved with CUs, including most CEOs, marketing was a dirty word....