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A statement being heard more frequently as credit unions become more complex to operate, is that the most important decision a credit union board of directors will ever be called upon to make will be the hiring of a CEO. Some add, or the firing of the CEO. For years...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Encore Financial Services Cooperative, the credit union-owned financial services network for ATM/EFT services, shared branching and merchant services has become the newest player in the steadily percolating credit union credit card market. Encore has signed an agreement with T.K. Keith Company, a Wakefield, Massachusetts firm with...

Partnering with the major trades in their effort is the Utah League of Credit Unions, Tooele Federal Credit Union, Goldenwest Federal Credit Union, and America First Federal Credit Union. These credit unions were also at the center of the Utah tax fight this year, which was what prompted them to...

Reading Works Federal Credit Union, Wyomissing, Pa., has recently offered two $500 Academic Achievement Scholarships to members of their CU Succeed Teen Club. Winners had to be a member of RWFCU and the Teen Club, a high school senior, accepted into and/or enrolled full time at a post-secondary school, and...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - The California Credit Union League's newly formed Latino Network will hold its first Webcast on Sept. 29 to educate credit unions on the multifaceted Latino market and how credit unions can serve this rapidly growing population. Latinos currently represent 13.1% of the U.S. population and are...

DULUTH, Ga. - Mike Culbertson, the former president of Credit Union Service Corp. who departed the big shared branch processor last March by "mutual agreement," is returning to the business of lobbying and state league administration. Culbertson, a veteran League staffer who served seven years as president of the Kansas...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - A group of Southern California credit unions has formed an organization to expose more students to the basics of personal finance. The group, called Southern California Credit Union Partners in Education, or So Cal CU-PIE, is modeled and named after a successful program that Sacramento-area credit...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Empire Corporate received such a strong response from a Membership Capital Account investment opportunity, dubbed "Premium MCA", it offered its CU members, that it had to expand from the initial offering by about $35 million. Member capitalization is voluntary at the $4.7 billion corporate, and it's not...