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SAN DIMAS, Calif. - WesCorp Investment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of WesCorp, launched its new Web site at www.wescorpinvest.com. The site features daily market commentary, agency market information, security evaluations, investment terms defined, regulatory articles, and links to other sites. WesCorp Investment Services is a registered broker/dealer offering a range...

MADISON, Wis. - Jim Jerving, manager of editorial products for CUNA, knows it's not completely without risk, but believes an e-book could be just thing to drive more people to a CUNA management program. For years, some analysts have said that print publications will be cannibalized by their own online...

KILLARNEY, Ireland - If the saying "misery loves company" is true, then credit unions can take solace-albeit small solace-from the fact that predatory lending is not just a problem plaguing U.S. consumers, it's pervasive worldwide. Just how widespread predatory loan practices and other fringe banking abuses are throughout the world...

SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Business Corporation has announced a strategic alliance with SecureInfo Corporation, a global provider of CyberSecurity services and products, to enhance its risk management services. "This alliance with Secure Info is part of an overall strategic plan we have designed to enable SWBC to provide our clients...

Looking back three years ago finds both bank and credit union PAC contributions soaring. The actual 1998 numbers through April 1998 for the CU PACs totaled $242,786, including $203,875 from CULAC, $18,029 from NAFCUPAC (through March only) and $20,882 from CCULPAC. "To an extent, this is a chicken-and-egg thing," said...

MADISON, Wis. - Three CUNA Mutual Group executives spent a week in China recently where they visited with Chinese officials about the possibility of CUNA Mutual providing insurance for China's credit cooperatives. The CUNA Mutual execs included President/CEO Mike Kitchen; Ralph Swoboda, vp of international affairs; and Lon Sprecher, head...

WASHINGTON - The elderly can now make just one stop at BenefitsCheckUp.org to find out how to sign up for federal and state assistance. ``In most communities, if you want to find out benefits information, you have to go to 15 different offices,'' said National Council on the Aging president...

HARAHAN, La. - The advent and successful efforts of CUNA's Credit Union Legislative Action Council (CULAC) to raise money to support credit unions' national legislative lobbying efforts has spurred many leagues to make similar efforts on the state level through their respective state political action committees (PAC). Like CULAC, state...