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BREMERTON, Wash. - Having to deal with staff members whose spouses or family members have been shipped overseas in the war against Iraq is prompting Kitsap Community Federal Credit Union to re-examine how it deals with its employees. "We're putting together information for our managers on how to manage employees...

LAS VEGAS -Nevada Federal Credit Union has launched a new Investment/Insurance division. Products and services offered will include financial and retirement planning, mutual funds, annuities, full service brokerage, life and disability insurance, wealth management and estate planning. Chris. A. Wible, CFP will head the new division, and Jeff D. Garret...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Here is some good news on the identity theft front - nearly all Americans are taking at least some steps to protect themselves from identity theft. A recent national survey conducted by legal information Web site FindLaw, reports that 98% of American adults take one or...

WASHINGTON-Following NCUA's March board meeting, some banking trade groups raced to issue statements vilifying the agency's new field of membership regulation and the member business lending proposal. American Bankers Association Executive Vice President Edward Yingling called NCUA's new field of membership policy an expansion of the credit union tax exemption...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The debate over whether state-chartered credit unions should, as Maryland's Commissioner of Financial Regulation advocated during CUNA's GAC, be allowed a private insurance alternative, or whether, as the NAFCU Board has opined, all credit unions should be required to be federally insured, shows no signs of abating....

I read Mike Welch's March 12th column "NAFCU Attack on Private Insurance Bad Timing" with interest. He criticizes the NAFCU Board for doing a great disservice to dual chartering and Brian McDonnell, CEO of Navy FCU for insisting that "the game be played his way." It is a stretch to...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - There were approximately 40 credit union card portfolio sales last year, and the good news for credit unions looking to sell is CU portfolios may be fetching higher price tags these days due to market conditions and credit quality. The high quality of credit union card...

Mike Welch's reference to the Los Angeles Area Cooperative Advertising Program in his March 19th column ("Surveys, Bankruptcy, Affiliation, Ads, forum, and More") compels me to applaud his support of the initiative, and to give a large credit union's perspective on the need for such a program at precisely this...