FORT WORTH, Texas - Heeding President Bush's September call for children to donate $1 to the Afghanistan Children's Relief Fund, the Fort Worth Independent School District students, staff, parents and Parent Teacher Associations collected $24,000 in change. OmniAmerican Credit Union then helped turn that change into a check. "We were...
WASHINGTON - According to Callahan & Associates, five-year compound share growth at credit unions from June 30, 1996 to June 30, 2001 averaged 7.82%, but some credit unions blew that figure away. In fact, 23 CUs on the list topped 20% share growth. The No. 1 ranked Digital CU, Maynard,...
NAPERVILLE, Ill. - The Illinois Credit Union Foundation has created a scholarship in honor of long time credit union activist Gene Artemenko who died October 15. Recipients of the CU Foundation's assorted scholarships are the staff or volunteers of credit unions in the state. The money can be used to...
INDIANAPOLIS - Credit union data processor re:Member Data Services has given its customers compatibility of thermal receipt printers with its cuStar core data processing software. ASP and in-house customers can use thermal printers. "From the member's perspective, receipts generated from thermal printers are more convenient to handle because of their...
WALLINGFORD, Conn. - Connecticut consumers interested in learning which of the state's 150 CUs they're eligible to join will soon be able to go online to the California Credit Union League's Match-Up Web site to find out. The Connecticut Credit Union Association has agreed to add its member credit unions...
WASHINGTON-Spending less does not mean less holiday cheer. According to the second annual holiday spending survey conducted by CUNA and the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), holiday shoppers will cut back on spending, but not much over last year. Additionally, the study found that consumers were less concerned about debt...
SYDNEY, Australia and AUCKLAND New Zealand - The term "people's bank" isn't used much in the U.S., but the term which refers to a government-sponsored bank that brings financial services to those that are not served by traditional financial institutions, has begun to circulate in Australia. In New Zealand it's...
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Autumn is in full swing, and the sound of crunching fills the air - from leaves underfoot and on the desks of IT managers around credit union land as they work the numbers of their 2002 budgets in preparation for approval by their bosses and their boards....
SAN FRANCISCO - Respondents to the sixth annual "Computer Crime and Security Survey" by the non-profit Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the Computer Intrusion Squad of the San Francisco office of the FBI reported financial losses averaging $2 million each in 2001 because of computer network intrusions. That's almost double...