OVERLAND PARK, Kansas - Corporate Network Brokerage Services, Inc. recently held its 2001 annual meeting, where outgoing board chairman Dave Preter emphasized that CNBS has turned the corner since its spinoff from U.S. Central to corporate CU ownership. "At the time of the spin-off of CNBS, its shareholders wisely recognized...
WASHINGTON-CUNA wrote a letter to Federal Reserve Consumer and Community Affairs Director Sandra F. Braunstein recommending six credit union representatives to the Fed's Consumer Advisory Council. The council consists of credit union, bank, and thrift representatives from each of the 12 regions of the Federal Reserve System. "All of these...
INDIANAPOLIS - As another Internet solutions provider popular in the credit union space makes a deal to offer account aggregation to its clients, the question of member interest in the product remains. At press time,VIFI, Indianapolis, has partnered with aggregation firm uMonitor to offer aggregation to its 160 financial clients,...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - "Corporate America CU." No, that's not the new name for U.S. Central or for one of the larger corporates with a national presence - it's the new name for Alabama Corporate CU. So just why has this corporate, which for most of its existence has only served...
JAMESBURG, N.J. - The $3.9 billion Empire Corporate FCU's New Jersey item processing site was recently moved from Hightstown to Jamesburg. The new operations site has 9,500 square-feet of space, a training room for member use, and state-of-the-art computer and check processing rooms. The site's floor plan was designed with...
WASHINGTON - Hispanic home shoppers have another resource for timely information on qualifying for a mortgage, interest rates and refinancing, thanks to the Interagency Task Force of Fair Lending. The federal agency which is comprised of NCUA and other members, has published a Spanish-language version of its popular brochure for...
BEDFORD, Mass. - The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Financial Management has named Hanscom Federal Credit Union (HFCU) "Best Air Force Credit Union for 2001." This award is given annually to the Air Force credit union that has shown most superior service to the men and women of the...
WASHINGTON - At some point the bottom of the Federal Reserve's rate-cut barrel is going to come along, but it wasn't this month. The Fed cut the fed funds rate by a quarter point, bringing it to 3.5%, the lowest rate for the fed funds in seven years. The cut...