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In response to publisher Mike Welch's recent column on pet peeves, I have one of my own. My biggest pet peeve has to be the notion, within the credit union industry, that EVA-type measurement methodologies have no place within our organizations because "we are different from for-profit entities." I agree...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The past 18 months have been quite a roller-coaster ride for CU balance sheets. The story in 2000 was loan growth. Loans were up 11%, or about $30 billion, while shares increased just 6.3%, or $22.3 billion. This year the scenario is reversed. NCUA's 2001...

MADISON, Wis. - CUNA Mutual Group will begin sending out revamped retirement account statements this month to some 60,000 CU employees, or about 35% of full-time staffers in the nation's CUs. Most of the 60,000 retirement account holders are participants of 401(k) plans, with others participants in money purchase and...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The New Mexico Credit Union League, convinced cyberspace is the vehicle to reach young people, is offering an innovative education package making use of teen "message boards," Web sites and youth-written newsletters to convey a pro-CU message. The program, called "CU Succeed," expects to sign up eight...

NAFCU only has a staff of 56, but its 1,000 member CUs would never know it. NAFCU leaders say its staff strives to be responsive to all of its member CUs, taking a hands-on approach. Long-known for its regulatory and compliance expertise, NAFCU has been working on increasing its profile...

Does your credit union's strategic plan include objectives such as increasing the number of member relationships and becoming your members' primary financial institution? If it does, "Should your credit union originate mortgage loans and retain servicing on members' mortgages?" Sometimes the obvious answer is not correct. Credit union managers typically...

WASHINGTON-The House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 1408, the Financial Services Antifraud Network Act, introduced by freshman Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). The legislation aims at creating an antifraud network between the nation's more than 250 financial regulators to share information in hopes of better preventing financial fraud schemes. The bill...

WASHINGTON-CUNA Associate General Counsel Mary Dunn testified before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in opposition to its proposal on reporting of deposit interest paid to nonresident aliens. Dunn was the only credit union representative to testify. "We don't know how horrendous this is going to be," Dunn told Credit Union...