WASHINGTON-Despite increased concern over anthrax discoveries around Capitol Hill, a reception on the Senate side of the Capitol for NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar went on as planned. Mississippi Republican Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran hosted the event. The event was in honor of Dollar's recent appointment to chairman of...
As an individual takes on more responsibility and handles it well, he or she can expect to eventually be rewarded with a fatter paycheck. That's the way it works, for example, with credit union CEOs. As the credit union gets larger and more complex, the CEO has every right to...
LAKE MARY, Fla. - Fiserv has created a new business unit targeted to meet origination software needs of mortgage, consumer and commercial lenders. The new organization, Fiserv Lending Solutions, unites the Fiserv loan-origination business units - the easyLENDERr Products and the UniFir Products organization - into one entity. A new...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - The founders of credit union data processing C.U. Processing are leaving the parent firm that purchased C.U. Processing last year. David Palmer, long-time CEO of C.U. Processing prior to it being acquired by Canadian IT powerhouse CGI, is leaving, along with Paul Chauvin, who served as CFO...
MADISON, Wis. - It's only been a year, but it looks as if corporate credit unions are finding some investment value in CUNA Mutual Group's corporate credit union investment line, CUNA Mutual Notes. So far 11 corporates have invested $190 million in Notes. When it was first launched last October...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-What do you get when you combine a federal agency chairman, a lame duck board member, and a recess appointee at the end of his term? A potential NCUA Board of one. However, NCUA Board Member Yolanda Wheat, whose term expired in August, said that she is willing to...
WASHINGTON-In a letter to House Small Business Committee Chairman Don Manzullo (R-Ill.), NAFCU asked that an amendment to permit federal credit unions broader acceptance to the Small Business Administration's (SBA's) 7(a) guaranteed loan program be added to the American Small Business Emergency Relief and Recovery Act of 2001. "We believe...
MANCHESTER and LONDON, U.K. -When members of Camberwell Community Credit Union found themselves without a credit union, the Southwark Credit Union stepped in. Starting this month, Southwark took over Camberwell's operation and is fully servicing the members' existing accounts. Members lost no money in the transfer. The transfer was a...