DENVER - Using the cooperative approach, Colorado credit unions are moving swiftly to expand their reach into personal trust services by opening a new CUSO-chartered trust company, Members Trust Co. of Denver, slated to open offices by the latter part of October or in November. A major roadblock to chartering...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-After graduating high school, NCUA Information Specialist Cherie Umbel got married and had children, as many women of her generation did. When the marriage did not last, Umbel was forced to enter the full-time working world as a single mother with just a high school diploma. Fortunately, in September...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Politicians who backed the idea of a federal income tax rebate argued people would spend the money and help boost the economy. Others have encouraged people to save the money or at least pay down their debts. Based on random calls by Credit Union Times...

LAKE BLUFF, Ill. - If the Federal Reserve's annual bank fee study had included credit unions this year, credit unions would have blown the banks away. According to the most recent data from Moebs $ervices, Lake Bluff, Ill., the median fees at CUs are much more consumer-friendly than the median...

WASHINGTON - NAFCU has made its regulatory relief wish list known, and it's nothing like CUNA's. In a letter to Acting NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar, NAFCU President and CEO Fred Becker provided the regulator with a list of reforms the trade association would like to propose for a regulatory relief...

HELENA, Mont. - Tracie Karls doesn't know where the time has gone. Up until six years ago she was living in Oregon and working at various credit unions in the state. For the past six years Karls has been at the Utah League of Credit Unions, working her way up...

It is understood in the industry that retention of membership improves dramatically when each member participates in one additional credit union program. Ultimately, each credit union sets a goal to be each member's primary financial institution. Effective delivery will bring your institution a step closer to that goal. Meaningful programs...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Bill Birdwell hasn't exactly eased his way into the CEO position at Southeast Corporate FCU. Instead he's thundered in with his competitive guns blazing. Change has come swiftly at the $2.8 billion Southeast Corporate FCU under the guidance of Birdwell, who assumed the CEO position in June....