One of the most popular spots during CUNA Mutual Group's Discovery Conference was undoubtedly the Tech lab. The Lab was designed to be hands-on and to give attendees a flavor for all of CUNA Mutual's online offerings. Attendees could give a demo a spin or get one-on-one support from Tech...

Affinity Federal Credit Union, Bedminster, N.J. has promoted Donna M. LoStocco to vice president of member development/political affairs and Lisa Lombardo to assistant vice president of operations.

Does your credit union's strategic plan include objectives such as increasing the number of member relationships and becoming your members' primary financial institution? If it does, "Should your credit union originate mortgage loans and retain servicing on members' mortgages?" Sometimes the obvious answer is not correct. Credit union managers typically...

WASHINGTON-The House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 1408, the Financial Services Antifraud Network Act, introduced by freshman Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). The legislation aims at creating an antifraud network between the nation's more than 250 financial regulators to share information in hopes of better preventing financial fraud schemes. The bill...

WASHINGTON-CUNA Associate General Counsel Mary Dunn testified before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in opposition to its proposal on reporting of deposit interest paid to nonresident aliens. Dunn was the only credit union representative to testify. "We don't know how horrendous this is going to be," Dunn told Credit Union...

Columbia Credit Union, Vancouver, Wash., has named Lisa D. Peake and Craig A. Knipe registered representatives with Financial Network Investment Corporation. In addition, CCU has promoted Michael Florea to assistant vice president of information and technology services. Utah League of Credit Unions, Salt Lake City, has appointed the following officers...

TORONTO - CUNA Mutual Mortgage unveiled the newest version of its online mortgage application at CUNA Mutual Group's Discovery Conference here (see special report on pages 14 &15 for other mortgage-related stories ). One of the major enhancements of the new solution - MEMBERS Choice Net Mortgage Plus - is...

AUSTIN, Texas - Firms making their living on the Internet find the path to profitability a tough one. Internet solutions provider FundsXpress says it will be there by year-end. To help buoy the company until the profitability stage, FundsXpress has received commitment for an additional $10 million investment from current...