ORLANDO, Fla.-NCUA Acting Chairman Dennis Dollar announced at NAFCU's Annual Conference & Exhibition that soon after he took the helm of the credit union regulatory agency, he directed senior staff to review NCUA's management and organizational structure for opportunities to streamline and improve operations and thereby increase agency accountability, budgetary...

ORLANDO, Fla.-CorePROFIT Solutions President and CEO Joseph Prunty warned credit unions during NAFCU's Annual Conference & Exhibition that if they do not segment their members by their needs and profitability, someone else will. According to Prunty, the most important information to come from member segmentation is that the institution "begins...

Island Federal Credit Union, Hauppauge, N.Y., has awarded $1,000 scholarships to 10 students entering their first year of college. The scholarship recipients are all children or grandchildren of IFCU members. Chartway Federal Credit Union, Virginia Beach, Va., has awarded four $1,500 scholarships to Toskhan Cooper-Shelton; Alexander Comiskey; Eugene Reyes; and...

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada - Members of the Taiwanese Canadian Toronto Credit Union will have ATM service their way - in Chinese. TCU is the first financial institution to use the Dynamic Branding multilingual capabilities of the new AutoBranch Technologies, Inc. network, which delivers financial services on ATMs in the institution's...

WASHINGTON-The American Bankers Association (ABA) has submitted the last of its briefs prior to oral arguments in their lawsuit against the NCUA and others scheduled for September 5. NAFCU Senior Vice President and General Counsel Bill Donovan remarked of the brief that it simply "rehashes stale arguments" and remained confident...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - A "super regional" organization designed to allow credit unions in four western states to share products and services has been unveiled by the Washington, California/Nevada and Oregon credit union leagues. The CU Association of the West was formally announced during a teleconference held Monday, July 16....

RANCHO CUCAMONGA and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - After having an informal working arrangement for the last few years, Career Connections Inc., an affiliate of the California Credit Union League, and the human resource division of O'Rourke Consulting, a wholly-owned subsidiary of O'Rourke, Sacher & Moulton, CPAs have made their working...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Employees CU President/CEO Greg Smith says it's time for PSECU to share the wealth with the rest of the CU industry - its wealth of IT expertise that is. The $1.6 billion PSECU, long recognized for being a technology pacesetter, has formed a new IT...