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WASHINGTON-Last week, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) appointed conferees to the bankruptcy reform legislation conference. According to credit union Hill lobbyists, none of the conferees named were a surprise. NAFCU Senior Lobbyist Murray Chanow said he is only surprised that the House did not name more than 19...

ST.PETERSBURG, Fla. - For credit unions, there's a new but familiar player in the credit card portfolio sales game - Payment Systems for Credit Unions, Inc. Responding to major issuers targeting credit union credit card portfolios, PSCU is providing CUs a turnkey alternative- the PSCU Portfolio Management Solution. From evaluation...

ARLINGTON, Va. - NAFCU President/CEO Fred Becker agrees 100% with a recent USA Today story that recommended consumers check out credit unions for great rates on CDs - but there's even more consumers should be doing with CUs, says Becker. In a letter published in the July 26 edition of...

DULUTH, Ga.- Georgia Central CU has appointed Allen Carver interim president/CEO. David Preter resigned from the post recently to become president/CEO of the $3.7 billion Mid-States Corporate FCU. Carver recently retired from a 33-year career with NCUA. During his tenure with NCUA, Carver served as Regional Director in Atlanta and...

* Formerly South Dakota Corporate FCU (name change occurred this March), * The nation's smallest corporate with $100 million in assets * Serves 62 CUs in South Dakota. * FOM: Recently expanded its FOM to be able to present check imaging, item processing and service bureau DP in the Fed's...

SYDNEY, Australia - What does a league do when the relationship between them and their members is borderline warfare? That's what Steve Laue had to face when he signed on as CEO of the Credit Union Services Corporation Australia (CUSCAL). When Laue walked through the door in June 2000 to...

MidWest Financial Credit Union, Ann Arbor, Mich., in conjunction with the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation has awarded $1,000 educational scholarships to Lawrence Mailloux of Fenton High School and Robert Burns of Hampton University. Scholarship recipients were selected based on academic excellence, community/extracurricular involvement, and an essay response to this...

I appreciate Mike Welch's comments about NAFCU in the July 11 issue of Credit Union Times. I appreciate his clear identification of the mechanism by which all of NAFCU's strengths flow: direct membership. As to his comments on size, this is always a relative matter. As it applies to NAFCU,...