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ALBANY, N.Y. - Representative Michael McNulty (D-N.Y.) and Senator Neil Breslin (D-N.Y.) paid a visit to Empire Corporate's Albany, New York headquarters recently. The visit was coordinated in conjunction with the New York State CU League. The two lawmakers toured the facility and visited with several of Empire's senior managers....

HARRISBURG, Pa. - It's real apparent lately that credit unions are more on the minds of lawmakers. In recent weeks corporates, CUs, and CU leagues have had meetings with members of congress. The latest happened in Harrisburg, Pa. at Pennsylvania State Employees CU. The CU hosted Congressman Tim Holden, who...

MAYNARD, Mass. - Experion Systems, a vendor of automated advice products for credit unions on loan, deposit and investment applications, said last week it has signed up three more CUs as clients. They are the $3 billion Patelco CU, San Francisco, the $1 billion Safe CU in Sacramento, Calif.; and...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Who needs to compete on reality TV when fame and sometimes even fortune can be had through an Employee-of-the-Year program. With employee retention high on credit union human resource departments' agenda experts say a well-planned employee of the year program can go a long way...

PURCHASE, N.Y. - Kraft Foods FCU has licensed a business connectivity solution from Decade Systems Corp. to integrate the CU's mortgage processes. The $500 million CU is using the Total Enterprise Data Integration platform from Decade Systems Corp. of Jacksonville, Fla., to coordinate the operations of its Dynatek mortgage loan...

VIENNA, Va.-Staffers from the Federal Reserve's Division of Consumer and Community Affairs took a tour of Navy Federal Credit Union's facilities and met with credit union officials Jan. 16. The meeting aimed to get the two groups acquainted and highlight the largest credit union's operations and corporate philosophy. Navy Federal...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Credit union marketing used to basically involve colorful brochures, the occasional ad and maybe a booth at a festival. "When I started in the industry more than 15 years ago, marketing was more about the writing, creative and design aspects than anything else," says Suzanne McCann, vice...

Sandy Weill and Jamie Dimon may be household names in the world of big banking, but chances are many credit union folks never heard of them. Chances are even better that what Weill and Dimon combined know about credit unions would fit on one page of a small notebook with...