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WASHINGTON - While Washington watchdogs continue to debate whether the $1.35 trillion tax cut will ultimately help or hurt the economy and whether the cuts are too beneficial for higher-income Americans, credit unions can start gearing up for the silver lining of the bill - retirement plan enhancements. Tax rebate...

* Founded in 2001 by Craig Lassen and John Silvia, former Cavion execs, * Offers IT security, specializing in intrusion detection, firewalls, and secure form servers, * Seven employees, * 15 CU clients representing $1 billion in assets, * "It's so funny really, there was no real intention for me...

MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Mutual Group must be doing something right - it has made the top five list of life premiums sold by financial institutions. Based on research conducted by Dr. Kenneth Kehrer, president of Kenneth Kehrer Associates, a Princeton, New Jersey-based consulting firm, CUNA Mutual ranked fifth in...

FDIC Chairman Donna Tanoue has resigned. Tanoue is best known of late for her work to reform deposit insurance. See full story on page 2.

HERNDON, Va. - NACHA has approved an E-Sign provision for its operating rules governing the ACH network. Under the new rule, e signatures that comply with the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act will comply with NACHA's requirements for "similarly authenticating" a consumer ACH debit authorization. Currently, NACHA...

Wright-Patt Credit Union, Fairborn, Ohio, has named Tim Mislansky general manager of the Wright-Patt Financial Group; Joy Lisle personal financial advisor; and Richard O. Lung personal financial advisor. Commonwealth Credit Union, Sun Prairie, Wis., has named Andy Faust president/CEO. John Deere Community Credit Union, Waterloo, Iowa, has promoted Tina Hogan...

ONTARIO, Calif. - CO-OP Network, the largest electronic funds transfer network in the credit union industry, can now include Texas-based EDS Employees Federal Credit Union, First Community Credit Union and Indiana-based Ball State Federal Credit Union as the latest members of its network family. The Plano, Austin and Dallas credit...

Credit Union Times ran an excellent profile of U-Lane-O Credit Union CEO Gordon Hoerauf in the May 30 issue under the headline, "Gordon Hoerauf: CUs are a movement, not an industry." After reading this profile feature, I increased my appreciation of Hoerauf's many contributions to credit unions. His remarks also...