SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Redwood Credit Union, the largest credit union in the North Bay and one of the largest CUs in the state with approximately $606 million in assets, has formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary - RCU Services Group. The CUSO will offer financial management/investment services and insurance products....
SAN FRANCISCO - Imagine giving your members instant online approval for an auto loan and auto insurance all in one shot - that functionality is being added to Patelco CU's online arsenal. The $2.2 billion CU has partnered with Esurance Inc., an auto insurance provider, to launch an integrated online...
From online investing and account aggregation to firewalls and the pending release of Windows XP, the special report on pages 16-30 provides in-depth coverage of these emerging tech issues.
NEW YORK - Wow. Credit unions are a force to be reckoned with online according to a recently-released Bank Technology News online banking report. Bank Technology News ranked the top 123 financial institutions in terms of number of online users -sixty of which were credit unions. The top 25 institutions...
A rose by any other name, the old saying goes, is still a rose. That may be true when it comes to flowers, but not when describing a weekly publisher's column of opinion. The piece above is correctly called a column. Many readers, in commenting on it, or writing a...
PARIS - Laughter echoed through the dining room of the Meridien Hotel in Montparnasse when writer, British television personality and cricket wife Francis Edmonds gave a motivational speech. She cited credit unions as doing great work, helping people to help themselves, but she also drove home some core values. Edmonds...
SAN ANTONIO - Clarke American has earned TruSecure's seal of approval. The TruSecure certification means Clarke American's Net services were put through extensive security testing, including port scans and penetration testing. Clarke American offers an online check re-order service used by a number of credit unions. "Our TruSecure certification assists...
WEST PALM BEACH - This year, the big summer slashes have been job cuts. Union Planters Corp. has announced it's cutting an unspecified number of jobs and American Express will also be eliminating up to 5,000 jobs this quarter. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is projecting that job cuts would...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Bob Dorsa, president of Dorsa & Associates Inc. and president of NACUSO by management contract since the late 1990's, will become a salaried NACUSO employee starting October 1. Dorsa was one of the founding directors of NACUSO. He was appointed the association's first president in 1997....
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - TCUL Lending Services used to offer its auto loan recapture program by accessing the Department of Motor Vehicle's database to find out which members financed auto loans from a source other than a credit union. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act put an end to that practice. Now TCUL...