PARIS - The "City of Lights" is host to this year's World Council of Credit Union's fifth International Credit Union Leadership Institute. General and educational sessions during the four-day conference, Aug. 19-22 at the Hotel "Le Meridien Montparnasse" will focus on strategies to help cooperative financial institutions meet the global...

WASHINGTON-While many banking regulators and lawmakers have applauded most of the proposals from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for its revamping, most have taken a position against doubling the deposit insurance coverage. With such opposition to this aspect, that provision of the reform process is expected to be dropped....

GDANSK, Poland - Two Polish credit unions have responded to help members whose lives have been torn apart by recent flooding. Over 600 people were recently made homeless and five people died when torrential rains caused two rivers in Radunia and Strzy and a number of local streams to overflow....

WASHINGTON-A recently-released survey by the Securities Industry Association (SIA) determined that most Americans actually took the time to read the privacy policies from their financial institutions, understood the language, and were satisfied with the policy. Nearly three-quarters (73%) approved of the "opt-out" policy required of financial institutions under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...

Community First Credit Union, Appleton, Wis., has named Joyce Bayer, vice president of branch operations; Carol Steinberg, Lakeport branch manager; Todd Miller senior business lending officer; and Anne Cutts, mortgage loan originator. In addition, CFCU has promoted Jeff Schweitzer to vice president of facilities/purchasing and Kevin Hartz to assistant vice...

SALT LAKE CITY - Arrogant. Goldenwest President/CEO Shelley Clarke needed only one word to describe her impression of the attitude conveyed by Howard Headlee, president, Utah Bankers Association in his remark quoted in an article that ran in the Aug. 12 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune on women holding...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA's mid-year stats show CUs are being inundated with deposits, while lending has slowed considerably - and oh by the way, credit unions are nearing the $500 billion asset milestone. With deposits jumping by 9.7% in the first half of 2001, and loans inching along at just...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Robert Givens has been named to succeed Nancy Pierce as CEO of Mazuma Credit Union. After 25 years of service to the credit union industry, 13 of which were spent as president of the $213 million credit union, Pierce plans to retire in September to complete...