ONTARIO, Calif. - While the IRS is handing out advanced tax refund checks, the CO-OP Network is offering members more surcharge-free ATMs. Through an agreement with St. Paul, Minnesota-based Access Cash International, Inc., a provider of self-service financial products, CO-OP Network's nine million cardholders now have 12,000 surcharge-free ATMs in...

MidWest Financial Credit Union, Ann Arbor, Mich., in conjunction with the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation has awarded $1,000 educational scholarships to Lawrence Mailloux of Fenton High School and Robert Burns of Hampton University. Scholarship recipients were selected based on academic excellence, community/extracurricular involvement, and an essay response to this...

I appreciate Mike Welch's comments about NAFCU in the July 11 issue of Credit Union Times. I appreciate his clear identification of the mechanism by which all of NAFCU's strengths flow: direct membership. As to his comments on size, this is always a relative matter. As it applies to NAFCU,...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - Blink too long and you may miss George Dalton make another acquisition. Dalton, a co-founder of Fiserv and a big believer in acquiring companies to grow a company, has taken his acquisitive style to the call center industry. Just eight months since forming Call_Solutions, Dalton has led...

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc, a residential loan provider, has named Brian Hale executive vice president of national production for its consumer markets division. In addition, Countrywide has promoted R.J. Arnett to senior vice president of production for the Western division and Jeff Garrison to regional vice president for Southern California....

NEW YORK - It looks like credit unions will have bragging rights for at least another year. Once again credit unions outpaced all other financials in satisfaction levels according to the annual American Banker/Gallup Consumer Survey. The 2001 survey found that consumers in general are happier with their primary financial...

MADISON, Wis. - The two year "Plan it, Save 4 it" savings campaign pilot is reaching out to the Hispanic market. Promotional materials including a black & white quarter-page ad and text for a statement stuffer have been produced in Spanish and both are available free online. Sponsored by NCUF...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Jim Blaine, president/CEO of $6 billion-State Employees Credit Union of North Carolina is not daunted by NCUA's decision to not count as net worth a $1 million capital equity share investment from Self-Help Credit Union. He intends to continue to defend his position that federally-insured credit unions...