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RALEIGH, N.C. - Watch out predatory lenders- GE Mortgage Insurance and the North Carolina Minority Support Center are teaming up to educate residents here. Sixteen minority-owned credit union affiliates will receive 20,000 GE "Get the Facts" informational flyers to educate consumers about predatory lending practices and the community resources available...

WASHINGTON-CUNA learned that the House Financial Services Committee plans to request a limited number of suggestions for regulatory relief from each of the federal financial services regulators. CUNA President and CEO Dan Mica wrote his board recommending that CUNA, via NCUA and in consultation with other credit union groups, send...

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill may consider a consolidation of the financial institutions regulators as a way to streamline the department, according to a report in the American Banker. NCUA was not one of the agencies mentioned in the article based on anonymous sources. One of the plans O'Neill...

BATHURST, NSW, Australia and LEICESTER, UK - Two universities, two countries thousands of miles apart, two different training programs, but both have the same goal - train credit union people to be better in their jobs. Charles Sturt University in Australia and Leicester University in England, both have developed advanced...

WASHINGTON - Ray Springsteen has been a cornerstone of Callahan & Associates for more than eight years - that run will come to an end at the end of this month. Springsteen will be leaving the Washington-based credit union consulting and research firm to become vice president of marketing at...

ELGIN, Ill. - Credit union lending firm Lending Solutions, Inc. here has processed its one-millionth loan application through its National Loan Processing Center, a 24-hour lending call center. LSI, founded by Rex Johnson, a recognized leader in lending issues in the credit union industry, seems to be going through a...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requesting comment on its proposed information security regulation required under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). The law's security provisions require the FTC and other federal agencies to develop standards for financial institutions relating to administrative, technical and physical safeguards for customer information. The purpose for...

MADISON, Wis. - CUES announced that it has partnered with Decision Strategies International Inc. (DSI), W. Conshohoken, Pa., and Counter Intelligence Associates (CIA), San Juan Capistrano, Calif., to offer scenario-based strategic planning services to credit unions. According to CUES, the partnership gives CU execs and directors access to strategic planning...