WASHINGTON - Amid the growing arguments from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group accusing banks of gouging consumers with ATM fees and consumer concerns over the economy, ATM National President Ben Psillas wants to offer an oasis in the form of a new surcharge-free, deposit-taking national ATM network. Psillas plans...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Under the NCUA's recently approved incidental powers rule, a federal credit union may provide members with the opportunity to purchase a third party's vendor insurance, which may require the credit union to become a licensed insurance agent under state or local law, according to a recent legal opinion letter....
Management Team Ben Psillas - President & Founder of ATM National Steven Karp - Vice President of Strategy & Finance Former Senior Consultant at First Annapolis Consulting, Inc. Karen Adams Horton - Vice President of Marketing Former Director of Marketing at American Express Board of Directors & Advisors John O....
FOM: National Member CUs: 900+ Assets: $15 billion Capital Ratio: 6.90% President/CEO: Dick Johnson (announced retirement plans earlier this year) Recent news: WesCorp recently completed a live business contingency exercise. All of WesCorp's item processing services from the San Dimas headquarters were sent to its San Leandro processing center. Treasury...
TAYLOR, Mich. -Digital Dialogue, a Net-based call center firm, has enhanced its automated credit decisioning capabilities - and it's free for existing clients. These capabilities are powered by the company's Advanced Decisioning Engine (ADE) and are available in the basic package to existing customers at no additional charge. ADE's design...
CHICAGO - Research suggests a new set of consumer attitudes and behaviors has emerged since Sept. 11, and marketers may want to take note as they plan for the rest of this year and the first quarter of 2002. Advertising agency Leo Burnett USA has identified four distinct groups that...
WASHINGTON - ACORN and ACORN Housing Corporation released their 2001 study documenting the concentration of subprime lending to minority and low-income borrowers, and the data compared to last year's findings showed that despite consumer groups' best efforts and legislation that's been enacted, minority and low-income borrowers continue to overwhelmingly be...
HARTFORD, Conn. - The Connecticut Department of Banking has approved the conversion of two more federal credit unions to state charters - Greenwich Connecticut Teachers FCU and Fairfield County FCU. Greenwich Connecticut Teachers FCU, Riverside, will be known as Members Credit Union. Its field-of-membership will include persons who live, work,...
Frank Wielga's "Tribute to Artemenko" (CU Times, Nov. 7) sure struck a chord. Gene Artemenko was truly a great man - great charm, great intellect, great presence, great passion, great purpose, great gift for life and living. A credit union legend, a persona extraordinaire - in action a wonder to...