First Community Credit Union, St. Louis, Mo., has opened its latest branch in St. Charles. The full-service branch features four drive-up lanes and a drive-up ATM. The branch was designed by HBE Corporation, a design/build firm. @LANTEC Financial Federal Credit Union, Virginia Beach, Va., has opened its fourth branch in...

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Credit Union League and preferred provider TransUnion have launched "CU Reports", a tiered pricing structure based on the total volume of credit reports purchased by participating credit unions. To participate, a credit union must be affiliated with the PCUL, agree to use TransUnion as their primary...

WASHINGTON - Some 2,800 credit union people are expected here in the nation's capital to attend CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference, the trade association's largest conference of the year. It's a special issue for Credit Union Times as well. This 120-page issue sets a record for number of pages. (See page...

TULSA, Okla. - Oklahoma Credit Union League President/CEO Bob Bianchini wasted no time in sending off a letter to Gov. Frank Keating addressing the "numerous inaccurate and false statements" about credit unions made by Mike Jacobs, CEO of First Pryority Bank, in a letter the banker sent to the governor...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - City of Alexandria Employees CU filed with the Bureau of Financial Institutions to expand its field-of-membership to include students of Alexandria City Public Schools. Initially the $18.4 million CU will serve 2,000 students at the Academy of Finance at T.C. Williams High School, and eventually the credit...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Steve Rasmussen, president/CEO of FAA Employees Credit Union spoke before the state House Committee on Revenue and Taxation on behalf of Oklahoma's 28 state-chartered credit unions and told the committee members that their idea to increase the use tax would have detrimental effects on credit unions and...

WASHINGTON - NAFCU has announced that it is now accepting nominations for its 2002 awards competition in three separate areas: annual, marketing and innovation showcase. "Winners in these categories represent the elite among credit union leaders and innovators," said NAFCU Awards Committee Chair Bill Cheney,president/ CEO of Xerox FCU. "Each...

SYDNEY, Australia - Credit card and check (or cheques as the Australians spell it) fraud is on the rise everywhere, and down under is no exception. The costs of fraud to Australian CUs may seem less in total dollars than in the U.S. because of Australia's smaller population, it may...