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BREMERTON, Wash. - Carol Schillios seems to collect small credit unions in rural villages of foreign developing countries that need her expertise like some people collect antique furniture. This 5'4" blonde dynamo primarily works in Africa - Mali, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Uganda & Malawi; Asia - Philippines, Indonesia; and Eastern Europe...

MADISON, Wis. - A Credit Union Business Checking Account Guide first developed by the Ohio Credit Union League's Member Business Task Force and published by the league, is now available to all CUNA-affiliated credit unions through a link on the association's Web site - www.cuna.org/data/membercu/business_seg/business_seg_deposit.html. The guide gives credit unions...

WASHINGTON - Some credit unions need to better inform their communities about themselves and invite community input in order to expand their vision for helping members of modest means or nearby low-income areas, according to Gary Officer, executive director of the National Credit Union Foundation (NCUF). Officer recognized the credit...

California Credit Union League, Rancho Cucamonga, has named Kate McPike senior training consultant. Global Credit Union, Spokane, Wash., has named the following employees member service representatives: Sonja Alfaro, Corrine Moya, Nicole Clement, Sherylton M. Lucas, Crystal L. Graebner, Melissa Judd, Linda F. Horn, and Megan Ruth Ann Mills. In addition...

BEAVERTON, Ore. - First Tech Credit Union, the largest high tech and telecom credit union in the Northwest, has reached the $1 billion in asset milestone, and so has MacDill FCU out of Tampa. First Tech said the achievement is particularly noteworthy because it was reached during a time of...

WASHINGTON-Senate Banking Committee Republican Staff Director Wayne Abernathy received the green light from the Senate Banking Committee last week on his way to confirmation by the full Senate to the position of Treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions. The vote was unanimous for Abernathy to take the post left vacant...

Mike Welch's remarks in his Sept. 4, 2002 column ("Hired guns, single sponsors, ICU Day, and more") regarding International Credit Union Day is especially interesting for me. My father, Charles F. "Charley" Eikel, Jr., started the modern International Credit Union Day. It was inaugurated in 1948. In 1947 Charley got...

WASHINGTON - The National Credit Union Foundation has launched a new site on the World Wide Web at www.ncuf.coop. The new site will promote the Foundation and help donors and grantees get information they need, the Foundation said. A Madison-based Web technology cooperative developed the site. It provides information on...