ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - ePSCU, the e-commerce unit of PSCU, a credit/debit/EFT CUSO owned by 510 CUs, held its first-ever Internet Forum recently. Just a year old, ePSCU, which offers e-com products such as electronic bill payment, has 150 CU clients. "ePSCU is very much for real and here to...

KILLARNEY, Ireland - A historic moment doesn't always need to be earth-shattering. However, a quiet historic moment took place before the World Council of Credit Unions' 2001 International Conference and Annual General Meeting where 25 representatives from credit unions and co-operative banks sat down to discuss shared values, differences and...

St. Anne's Credit Union, Fall River, Mass., has appointed the following employees: Monique Grace, vice president of lending; Richard Beaulieu, vice president of branch administration; Robert Dumas, vice president of MIS; Janice Barrette, senior loan administrator/secondary market officer; John Mitchell, director of human resources; Darlene Sampson, Somerset branch manager; Deborah...

FAIRFAX, Va. - Credit union data processor FedComp, Inc. here has launched, The Next Generation, its new Windows-based data processing solution. Pre-release sales launch started on June 1, 2001, and special pre-release pricing will be available for credit unions which sign up for the solution between now and September 1,...

KILLARNEY, Ireland - "God must love ordinary people, he made so many of them," Mary McAleese, president of Ireland told the assembled delegates at the World Council of Credit Unions' Conference after greeting the group in both Gaelic and English. McAleese quickly made the audience feel she, too, is an...

OKLAHOMA CITY - WEOKIE Credit Union and Tulsa Federal Employees Credit Union have become the latest state-chartered credit unions in Oklahoma to be approved to convert to a community charter under the state's recently approved community charter rules. The State Credit Union Board at their June 5 meeting, unanimously approved...

DALLAS - Corporate credit unions are more than just getting their feet wet with technology - they're diving right in. At press time, the $5.6 billion Southwest Corporate FCU was the sole CU representation for NACHA's Project ACTION. NACHA launched Project ACTION (ACH Credit Transactions Initiated Online) back in May...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - It's still too soon to tell what longterm effect Washington State's new member business lending rule will have on state-chartered credit unions' MBL loan portfolios. After all, at press time the rule had only been in effect for five days. But that doesn't worry the state's credit...