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Redstone Federal Credit Union, Huntsville, Ala., has named Jack E. Wright assistant vice president of business lending. Georgia Central Credit Union, Duluth, has promoted Angie Snow to assistant vice president of operations.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - What's the big deal about spam? All you have to do is delete it. Of course, that can be a lot of clicking. "We've captured almost 70,000 spam-related messages since Oct. 1," Tom Phillips, exchange systems administrator at $4.5 billion Boeing Employees Credit Union in Seattle, said...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA permits federal credit unions to adopt an inactive accounts policy, but does not allow for federal credit unions to rely on state laws in these matters, a recent NCUA legal opinion letter (03-0855) read. NCUA Associate General Counsel Sheila Albin wrote that the Federal Credit Union Act provides...

Identity theft is the most popular form of consumer fraud, in part because it is the most profitable. According to the Federal Trade Commission, identity thieves stole nearly $100 million from financial institutions last year, or an average of $6,767 per victim. During the past four years, identity theft has...

WASHINGTON-The latest financial celebrity to join the speakers list for CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference in February is Treasury Secretary John Snow. The Treasury Secretary addressed the GAC last year, just shortly after he took the oath of office. "We will again be very interested to hear Secretary Snow's views on...

WASHINGTON - Credit unions are hitting prime time on a popular television news magazine show. During its Dec. 5 broadcast, Dateline NBC will focus on the car sales business and the costly pitfalls consumers face from auto dealers. It will cite credit unions as a better car-buying alternative for consumers....

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve Board named four new Thrift Institutions Advisory Council members, as well as the council's new president and vice president for 2004. First Federal Bank (Defiance, Ohio) Chairman and CEO William J. Small was announced as the new TIAC president and D. Tad Lowrey, chairman, president,...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Supporters of the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund report that House and Senate budget negotiators have approved $61 million in federal funding for the CDFI fund. The amount represents roughly $10 more than the House had approved earlier this year and roughly $9 million...