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WASHINGTON-Eight members of Congress recently penned a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in support of proposals that the World Council of Credit Unions has made regarding three developing countries. WOCCU, in partnership with various other organizations, has proposed projects in Romania, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam under the Food...

PORTLAND, Ore. - More than 340 credit union leaders from throughout the state - as well as three credit union officials from the Republic of Uzbekistan - are expected to converge here Thursday and Friday (Nov. 13-14) for the 67th annual meeting and convention of the Credit Union Association of...

MADISON, Wis. - Bring out the champagne. Twenty-five years after it was formed as CUNA Mortgage Corp. to help credit unions participate in mortgage lending by providing expertise and securing them mortgage funds, CUNA Mutual Mortgage is celebrating its silver anniversary this month. Credit unions, like other mortgage lenders, enjoyed...

Financial 21 Community Credit Union, San Diego, Calif., staffers have donated their time to help in the California Coastal Cleanup Day. Some 70 volunteers gathered over 3, 350 pounds of trash and 200 pounds of recyclables surrounding the 60 acre Mission Valley Preserve in San Diego. California Coastal Cleanup Day...

RALEIGH, N.C. - GE Mortgage Insurance contributed $100,000 to The North Carolina Central University Foundation to help create The Center for the Study of Real Estate Finance at the university, the first public liberal arts institution in the U.S. founded for African Americans The new facility will assist in educating...

BOSTON - What started out as charges of improper trading against Putnam Investments by regulators, quickly spiraled to at least a dozen states pulling billions of dollars in pension funds from the embattled firm to the chief executive stepping down as the scrutiny mounted. In the wake of it all,...

WASHINGTON-Though the credit union industry appears to be running smoothly and the financial condition strong, NCUA should make some changes to its oversight programs, according to a new 183-page report from the U.S. General Accounting Office. Time has been good to credit unions, GAO found. The government watchdog has not...

WASHINGTON - The board of directors of the Women's Mortgage Industry Network (WMIN), a national organization made up of leading women from several of the largest mortgage companies in the U.S., has released an action plan to address the substantial gap in the homeownership rate of single women with children...