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WASHINGTON-CUNA has nominated six credit union representatives for the Federal Reserve Board's Consumer Advisory Council. Credit unions' only representative on the council currently is E Federal Credit Union (Baton Rouge, La.) CEO Ken Bordelon. CUNA is hoping the Fed will consider seating more than one credit union representative on the...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Many credit union intranets have quickly morphed from a place to post company picnic announcements to an interactive tool that can allow tellers learn how to conduct complex transactions live without losing eye contact with the member. That's the kind of robust functionality the internal Internet...

WASHINGTON - The Small Business Administration will celebrate the success of women-owned businesses and recognize some of the leading women entrepreneurs at a special event on Sept. 18 during the agency's National Entrepreneurial Conference & Expo Sept. 17-19. According to the SBA, the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S....

WASHINGTON-CUNA wrote a letter of thanks to Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) and Senator Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) for introducing legislation designed to bolster financial literacy. S. 1470, The Financial Literacy and Education Coordinating Act proposes increasing financial literacy and education opportunities and calls for the development of...

NEW YORK - With 25% of credit union CEOs set to retire, are credit unions doing enough to prepare future leaders? DBM, a global human resources consulting firm, has found that 94% of human resource professionals polled in a recent survey feel their organizations have not adequately prepared younger generations...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - If tellers truly are the face of the financial institution, should more credit unions be asking what have they done for their tellers lately? "People think that a teller's job is easy and it is so not true," said People's Alliance Federal Credit Union Senior...

The unceremonious late July firing of long time NASCUS CEO Doug Duerr, described vaguely as "a difficult decision" in a release issued over the signatures of NASCUS Chair Jerrie Lattimore and NASCUS CU Council Chair Loren Rush, caught many of us by surprise. The official reason given by NASCUS' elected...

MADISON, Wis. - The National Credit Union Foundation's Community Investment Fund distributed over $243,000 in the second quarter of 2003, lifting its total disbursements since its inception to more than $1.315 million. The Foundation also reported that it is growing closer to its goal of raising $400 million for the...