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PORTLAND, Ore. - In an unusual linkup here, Portland Teachers Credit Union has teamed up with a local non-profit housing agency "to make dreams come true" for first time home buyers. The venture, organized with the 13-year-old Portland Housing Center, provides basic education, counseling and training to qualify borrowers in...

Credit unions have a lot of different economic factors both present and future to weigh before making investment decisions. Here is a rundown of just some of what is going on that CUs should consider on the investment front. The bond market sold off during the fourth quarter of 2003...

WASHINGTON - Community development credit unions have received a mixture of good and bad news about a previously popular government program. On the positive side, the leadership of the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution Fund announced that it will bring back a part of its program under which the...

PLANO Texas - Fiserv is definitely stepping up its investment in IntegraSys. Fiserv acquired what is now IntegraSys from EDS last year. It became Fiserv's seventh credit union data processing subsidiary. The IntegraSys executive team has been ramped up, many of the moves necessary as it builds its own infrastructure...

WASHINGTON-Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan told the House Financial Services Committee last week that the American economy is looking much better since the last time he visited them. When he testified in July for his semi-annual report to Congress on the economy, he said though indicators were improving, there...

MADISON, Wis. - The LoanLink Center, a credit union system-owned lending call center, has added two new platforms of tools designed to improve credit unions' indirect lending opportunities and provide better member service. The first enhancement is DealerTrackT, a point-of-sale, Internet-based auto dealer loan application system currently used by more...

HACKENSACK, N.J. - Seventy percent of consumers who have obtained their credit report have done so even though they weren't denied credit or felt they were a victim of ID theft. That's one of the findings of recently conducted survey by Harris Interactive, which also found that 63% of the...

SAN ANTONIO - Firstmark CU is helping parents and children rediscover the art of conversation. The $461 million credit union has teamed up with Southwest Mental Health Center to promote the "15+ Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk" parent-child communication campaign. "We believe that children are our future...