BROWN DEER, Wis. and HOUSTON - TYME Corporation shareholders have recently approved a proposed merger with PULSE EFT Association. The TYME transaction will be the second PULSE expansion within the last year. Both networks signed a merger agreement earlier this year and the TYME shareholder approval was just one of...

DANA POINT, Calif. - Speaking to state regulators and state-chartered credit union management and directors attending the NASCUS 36th Annual Conference & Symposium, NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar shared his thoughts on what he consideres to be the most important accomplishments of the NCUA Board in 2001: Creating the career...

DANA POINT, Calif. - The NASCUS Government Relations' alternative Share Insurance Study Group has been given marching orders by the NASCUS Board and the NASCUS Credit Union Council Board to "energize" the association's alternative insurance policy. The group was also directed to include in its considerations the possible advantages and...

PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona Federal Credit Union will issue the largest payout to members in its 65-year history - $2 million. "Our members have continued to show strong support of the credit union by their use of our services throughout the year," said AFCU President/CEO Ron Westad. "While we always...

WASHINGTON-According to Federal Election Commission reports, the Credit Union Legislative Action Council of CUNA (CULAC) slowed its outflow of funds to federal candidates for 2002 elections. CULAC only recorded $70,346.65 in disbursements for the month of November, compared with more than $213,000 in October and nearly $112,000 in September in...

DANA POINT, Calif. - After two false starts, the NASCUS 36th Annual Conference & Symposium was finally held at the Marriott Laguna Cliffs Hotel, Dec. 14-18. The original date of the five-day conference overlapped with CUNA's Annual Symposium, so NASCUS pushed the conference back a week to Sept. 15 -...

NEW YORK - In its January issue, Money magazine has named Kent Denver Credit Union, which is a branch of Aurora, Colorado-based Gateway Credit Union, the richest, largest student-run credit union in the country. Operating from the Kent Denver School, a private, college-prep academy of 620 sixth to 12th-graders, the...

By P.J. HELLER CU Times West Coast Correspondent CHULA VISTA, Calif. - Walk into a branch of North Island Financial Credit Union during the Oscar season, and there's a good chance you may be greeted by employees decked out in their Academy-Award finery treating you as if you're Julia Roberts...