Receiver: David Marion, Esquire McCracken, Walker & Rhoades LLP Phone: (215) 772-7434 Fax: (215) 731-3641 Web site: www.bfscorp.net Request: Credit unions should submit copies of all BFS, Entrust or Robert Bentley paperwork to: David Marion, Receiver P.O. Box 22473 Philadelphia, Pa. 19110-2473 Date: A full accounting is expected on or...

ST. LOUIS - Primedia Workplace Learning, a leading provider of integrated learning solutions for professionals in the banking, automotive, healthcare industries, among others, and its Bankers Training & Consulting Company have launched a credit union training division. The new division will focus on training programs specifically targeted to the credit...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - The California Credit Union League's Shapiro Group which provides special assistance to league-member CUs under $23 million in assets, provided $49,401 in grants to smaller CUs in California and Nevada in 2001. The monies were used to aid in technology purchases, policy and strategic planning, and...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Bob Woodward, known best for his investigative reporting with Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal, will keynote NAFCU's upcoming CEO Conference. The CEO Conference is scheduled to be held from Jan. 23-25 at the La Paloma resort in Tucson. NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar will also speak at...

EWING, New Jersey - In what will be the first merger of its kind in the Garden State, New Jersey Department of Transportation Credit Union (NJDOT) (CU Times, Jan. 16), a state-chartered multi-common bond institution, is merging with Parkway Financial Federal Credit Union, which has a community field of membership....

Calling someone a hacker used to be almost a compliment, or at least a begrudging recognition of his intelligence and ability to crack into computer systems. But that was before cyber-terrorism joined the physical kind as a fact of life for us all. Just as those threats have changed and...

WASHINGTON-The Federal Reserve Board Director of Bank Supervision Richard Spillenkothen wrote in a letter last week that banks with less than $1 billion in assets may undergo off-site examinations rather than having Fed examiners come into the bank for reviews. The practice is aimed at "more effective use of targeted...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - Call center firm Call_Solutions.com has made its 10th acquisition. That's 10 acquisitions in less than two years of being in business. Call_Solutions.com, founded in August 2000, has acquired CTC Teleservices, an inbound/outbound telemarketing service headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill. CTC's broad client list includes B2B marketers focused...