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VIENNA, Va. - NCUA Vice Chair JoAnn Johnson, a keynote speaker at Navy FCU's 71st Annual Meeting yesterday, applauded the credit union's financial literacy efforts of its members in spite of the "transient lifestyle of the typical military member." Johnson told attendees that "there aren't many financial institutions in the...

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Greenville FCU and Creative Builders Inc. have teamed up in producing one of the largest donations yet - $10,300 - for actor Paul Newman's Victory Junction camp for needy youngsters. Under a matching arrangement with the local builder, the credit union over the last few months raised...

WASHINGTON - Anyone interested in commenting on the Federal Reserve Board's proposed changes to the public disclosure tables that are used to report data collected by lenders under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, has until May 10 to do so. The Fed put the proposal out for comment on Thursday,...

WASHINGTON - Most credit union members who use online services do business with other financial institutions, but many are willing to switch if it's easy. That's according to the 15,750 respondents in the latest Callahan's Survey Consortium. The survey, taken online in February by members of the 15 credit unions...

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - With the hopes of empowering Texas credit unions to promote immigrant-friendly financial services to Hispanic communities across the state, the Texas Credit Union League in partnership with Texas Appleseed, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a just society through legal advocacy, community activism and policy expertise,...

Any regular Sports Illustrated reader knows what's going to happen after the annual swimsuit edition is published - the letters to the editor come pouring in condemning the tasteless exploitation of women along with demands to cancel subscriptions. I felt that same anticipation following Credit Union Times' comments on the...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA is trying to find new ways of demonstrating credit unions' service to the underserved by "tak[ing] existing data and sift[ing] it in a different way," according to agency Chairman Dennis Dollar. In response to a General Accounting Office study last fall and to combat the calls by the...

WAYNESBORO, Va. - Dupont Community CU's president/CEO felt "fairly confident" the state Supreme Court would rule in favor of the field-of-membership expansion decision made in 2002 by the Virginia Department of Financial Institutions. Still, when the Court handed down its ruling in February it sealed the decision for the CU,...