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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Members of First Entertainment Credit Union now have access to free financial counseling through the BALANCE program. BALANCE is a comprehensive financial fitness program designed to help members manage their personal finances and plan for the future through consultations with certified financial experts. First Entertainment CU's 55,000...

I've wondered for years why credit unions have simply sat quietly and allowed the bankers to repeatedly use the `looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, must be a duck' argument (CU Times, March 17) without responding with the story of the ugly duckling from our childhood which was...

BUENA PARK, Calif. - A proposed state initiative that would bar illegal immigrants in California from using matricular consular cards at public agencies for identification purposes could be placed before voters on the November ballot. A signature drive for the "Save our State" (SOS) initiative is facing an April 15...

SAN DIEGO - San Diego Metropolitan Credit Union has teamed up with the City of San Diego Water Department and Clear Channel Outdoor to post a local student's work of art on a billboard throughout the month of March. The billboard, showcased a poster by Olivia Ching, a 6th grade...

MADISON, Wis. - Credit unions wanting to submit data for the 2004 CUES Executive Compensation Survey have until April 26 to do so. The compilation is a national survey providing compensation reports for 11 credit union executive positions using data compiled from more than 700 credit unions. All data will...

Looking back 13 years ago finds credit unions being hit harder and more often by fraud. The number of bond loss claims reported to CUMIS Insurance Society, Inc. jumped 12% in 1990 to nearly 10,000 compared to 8,832 the previous year. Payable claims which are often the result of criminal...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-With the larger than normal congressional appropriation NCUA received for its Community Development Revolving Loan Fund this fiscal year, there are still funds to go around. In the fiscal year 2004 (ending Sept. 30) appropriations, NCUA received $1.2 million for the CDRLF with $1 million of that earmarked for...

HOLLISTER, Calif. - Redbeard Communications, a brand consulting/strategic design agency, will be featured in the "Logo Lounge - Volume II: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers", a design resource for the advertising and creative services industry. From thousands of entries nationwide, judges selected four of Redbeard's designs to be showcased...