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GREAT FALLS, Mont. - Children rule here at Kid Town Credit Union where a hands-on approach to financial education is a must. The "credit union" is actually one of the interactive exhibits at the new Great Falls Children's Museum. The exhibit features a small, brightly painted building complete with a...

Rewards programs have emerged as one of the single most effective ways to reach consumers and influence their payment choices and purchase behaviors. For generations, consumers have been able to save box tops and other proofs of purchases and exchange them for tangible rewards. Rewards programs operate much the same...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - A program designed to help enable credit unions to invest in credit cards without having to necessarily manage their own card program has taken off and gained ground in Illinois. But while credit union investors appreciate the earning their investment has brought them so far, they all...

GLASTONBURY, Conn. - Open Solutions Inc. has snagged another big credit union client for its transaction and integration processing services. Addison Avenue FCU, a 123,000-member institution based in Palo Alto, Calif., will use OSI's open architecture The Complete Credit Union Solution and CRM/business intelligence solutions, as well as consumer and...

NASHVILLE - During a recent visit to Nashville all three NCUA Board members -Chairman Dennis Dollar, Vice Chairman JoAnn Johnson and Deborah Matz - and some NCUA staffers took time to visit with the $1.3 billion Volunteer Corporate, the corporate for Tennessee credit unions. The NCUA leaders were given an...

BETHESDA, Md. - Ben Psillas, president of ATM National anticipates that the firm's recent addition of $1.1 billion State Employees Federal Credit Union of Albany New York to the list of participants in its Allpoint network will continue to prove to critics that the network's pricing structure is viable for...

BOSTON-Economist Lester Thurow described America's most recent recession as one of the mildest, yet harshest in recorded history. While the recession can be considered one of the mildest ever, it has been one of the highest in job losses since the Great Depression. America is losing 400,000 jobs every three...

NEW YORK - Consumer confidence in the economy dropped more than six points in July from the previous month, according to The Conference Board. Economists had expected the confidence index to rise. The consumer confidence in July was 76.6. One month prior it was 83.5. In addition, the Conference Board's...