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SALT LAKE CITY - On the job for the Utah League of Credit Unions for less than two months, Pete Suazo, a leading Utah legislator and called "the most prominent Latino in the state," was killed in a tragic all terrain-vehicle accident August 19. The 50-year-old Suazo, a state senator...

There are many reasons why e-mail marketing can be an effective channel for credit union marketers. Some of the benefits include: reduced cost (as low as pennies per message); the ability to target by segment; the ability to quickly test, measure and modify campaigns; and real-time response (e-mail programs generate...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Think your credit union's safe and secure, hiding all that confidential data and crucial functionality behind the latest and greatest in firewalls? Think again. "The lesson of the Code Red worm is that firewalls didn't prevent it, period. That's the issue," says Chuck Welsh, president of NetBankAudit...

WASHINGTON-Despite the reputation for many construction companies to overstay their welcome, CUNA's Credit Union House looks as if it will be ready in time for the September 11 grand opening. The house is being funded by credit union leagues that have invested in a limited liability corporation (LLC) on behalf...

PARIS - If the new technology has created opportunities it has also created legal problems and affected the way credit unions and all businesses operate. Because the Internet knows no borders, things like trademark issues can become major problems, said Eugenia Carter, an attorney with LaFollette, Godfrey and Kahn who...

I read with great interest publisher Mike Welch's column in the August 8 issue on the Credit Union Association of the West. Just yesterday I was speaking to a credit union CEO in the area and I asked him, "What do you make of this new CUAW?" His response was,...

HELENA, Mont. - That "super regional" linkup of four West Coast credit union leagues to share products and services is triggering plenty of discussion among credit union boards and league staffers across the Mountain States and Midwest, but the Montana Credit Union Network, for one, has no plans now to...

The Code Red worm has snarled traffic on the Internet and in other networks by infiltrating hundreds of thousands of servers. How did it accomplish that? Here's an explanation from Rick Fleming, vice president of security operations at Digital Defense Inc. in San Antonio, Texas: "The Code Red worm works...