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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - There's one adjective that can be used to describe the major trend on the CUSO scene this past year - multi-owned. CUSOs owned by multiple credit unions are continuing to increase in number and play a larger and more important role for one simple reason,...

NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The Michigan Credit Union League is encouraging credit unions to participate in the state's Outreach Effort for Earned Income Tax Credit. The EITC provides tax breaks to working low-income people. Credit unions can help by becoming a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site, partnering with an existing...

Two more credit unions have filed to convert to thrift charters. See story page 6.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Reorganizations can cause angst among employees and NCUA is no exception. Even though NCUA's realignment and declining number of full-time equivalents has been achieved without lay-offs or Reductions-In-Force, NCUA employees decided to pursue unionizing. As of deadline, a vote by the potential bargaining unit-those eligible for union membership-was delayed...

SALT LAKE CITY - The pundits were right: Utah in 2003 would be the epicenter of those "ferocious" bank attacks on credit unions, but no one imagined the kind of tumult that eventually occurred. The tax-CU uproar-something the banking lobby has skillfully nurtured and bankrolled for years in the media...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Citing everything from a need to raise more capital to a desire to make more business loans and preserve their independence, a very small minority of credit unions continued to pursue the option of changing their charters from those of credit unions to those of mutual banks....

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -Depending on what happens in the future, 2003 could go down as a "turning point" year for U.S. Central. The corporates' corporate was active on many fronts, including launching a new transferable certificate product that some corporates were concerned came too close to comfort to U.S....

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary Gilbert Gonzalez, the front-runner to fill NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar's seat on the board, withdrew his name from consideration earlier this year. As the nomination process dragged on, Gonzalez informed Dollar and the White House confirmed that he no longer wished to be...