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SPARTA, Mich. - COWWW Software says that Synergent Corp., a 53-client service organization of the Maine Credit Union League, has decided to continue its partnership with COWWW after the Maine company's recent conversion to the Symitar core processing system. COWWW Software will continue providing Synergent's credit unions - ranging in...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - It's been more than 10 years since Rhode Island was faced with dealing with the state credit union collapse and a recession, but residents of the state are still feeling the effects in their tax burden. A study by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council shows Rhode...

FRISCO, Texas - IntegraSys said it has improved the performance and upgraded the security for Open Door, its Web-based front end corporates use to access their accounts at U.S. Central via the Corporate Credit Union Network(CCUN). For the last 20 years IntegraSys has supported CCUN. Interestingly, IntegraSys will only be...

Deere Community Federated Credit Union, Ottumwa, Iowa, has promoted Laura Meeker to vice president of branch operations. In addition, DCFCU has elected Scott Riddle board director. CUNA Credit Union, Madison, Wis., has named Mike Bunge chief operating officer. MidWest Financial Credit Union, Ann Arbor, Mich., has promoted Lisa Castro to...

WASHINGTON - In order to help focus and streamline credit union's ongoing struggle to refute bankers' attacks, CUNA has prepared a new document which will gather many of credit unions' rebuttal arguments into one place. "The bankers' attacks are unprovoked, unrelenting and unfair," said CUNA CEO Dan Mica. "If the...

DETROIT - The Michigan Credit Union League opposes a proposed ordinance in Detroit that would require banks and credit unions to put security cameras and so-called 911 buttons on their outside ATMs. "The issue is not the cameras obviously, since everyone already has those," said Patrick LaPine, vice president of...

BOSTON - President Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card Jr. defended credit unions' tax-exemption status in a recent interview with the Massachusetts Bankers Association's Massachusetts Banker Magazine, stating that he is not in favor of "taking away an instrument called the credit union or the instrument called a savings bank...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Lending to self-employed borrowers typically carries much more risks, but tax safeguards are in place to protect credit unions from mitigating circumstances down the road, NCUA recently advised. NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson said as member business lending continues to grow, credit unions need to remember the unique...