At press time, a number of scheduled credit union events were being cancelled due to the terrorist attacks. This list is by no means complete as information was coming in sporadically at press time. * SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The annual meeting of the Combined Council of Automotive Credit Unions, scheduled...
URBANA, Ill. - When Canaan Missionary Baptist Church opens its new credit union next month, Rev. B.J. Tatum is hoping some parishioners and residents will reconsider how they save money and where they turn to for loans. The 24-year old church has done its best over the years to move...
ARLINGTON, Va. - Mary Martha Fortney likes to quip that her one claim to fame is that she comes from the same small city in upstate New York - Jamestown - that Lucille Ball was from. Fortney, NASCUS' Vice President of Government Affairs can add to that list of prestigious...
NEW YORK - With the sun shining brightly in Times Square last Tuesday, it was hard to reconcile the devastation that occurred in lower Manhattan earlier that morning when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. "This is an emotional time and it is almost surreal," said Actors Federal...
CHICAGO -United Airlines Employees CU President/CEO Bob Bream has a bird's-eye view of the O'Hare Airport tarmac from his office at the CU's headquarters, but there wasn't much to see on the day of and the day following the terrorist attacks. "My office really overlooks O'Hare. We're in the flight...
Desert Schools Federal Credit Union, Phoenix, Ariz., has promoted C. Lee Brice to vice president of branch operations, marketing and business development; Carlos Pacheco to vice president of member support services; and John Wright to vice president of finance. U. S. First Federal Credit Union, San Francisco, has appointed the...
WASHINGTON - Credit unions are still maintaining a healthy price advantage against banks with new auto loan rates, but the lending competitor on the block they should have their eye on is the captive financing company. Credit unions' new auto loan rates came down 64 basis points the first six...
As credit unions foray further into the world of e-commerce, they take with them the same responsibilities for consumer protection that exist in the brick-and-mortar world of financial transactions. That's something a lot of credit unions are not keeping up with, according to a compliance expert who works with both...
MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio - A Progressive Insurance telephone survey of 31,000 Americans finds that a large percentage of consumers are willing to cheat and commit crimes. The survey asked respondents not only how likely they would be to commit insurance fraud and other indiscretions if they knew they would not...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-In a small ceremony on August 31, acting NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar presented Shiloh of Alexandria Federal Credit Union (SAFCU) with a charter expansion from a church based credit union to encompass the entire Parker Gray section of Alexandria, Va., which is often referred to as the "inner city."...
