COLUMBUS, Ohio - Credit unions can stake a claim in urban areas, find a role in rural communities and, at the same time, make money at the expense of payday lenders and check cashers, Ohio credit union executives were told by a variety of speakers at the Ohio Credit Union...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Meanwhile, six months later, the Washington, California/Nevada and Oregon credit union leagues jointly formed a non-dues based "super regional" organization to allow credit unions in the four states to share products and services. Called the CU Association of the West, David Chatfield, president/CEO, California and Nevada...

ARVADA, Colo. - SunCorp Corporate CU and Rocky Mountain Corporate CU merged. The merged corporate now has about $1.9 billion in assets. There was one very unique aspect of this merger. The corporates did not want to lose their branding momentum, so each maintained its own name in its FOM....

AFTRA-SAG Federal Credit Union, Studio City, Calif., President/CEO Glenn Ludwig gives his final bow when he retires on December 31. Ludwig served his credit union for 25 years and brought the CU assets up from $7.5 million to $135 million. AFTRA-SAG FCU serves over 25,000 members. Denali Alaskan Federal Credit...

WASHINGTON-Credit unions and other financial service providers faced another year of disappointment in not seeing the passage of the bankruptcy reform legislation in 2001. Lobbyists were fairly certain it would pass this year, but the events of September 11 shifted congressional focus from domestic issues to an international war on...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - John Bley, the state's first director of the Department of Financial Institutions, announced his resignation from the state's top regulatory position. Bley said he had not made any formal decisions on the type of work he planned to pursue after his resignation. He said his decision was...

WASHINGTON-Just over a year ago, CUNA embarked on what was hailed as an ambitious goal to collect information from credit unions all across the nation of all sizes and others in the financial services field. These ideas were gathered, mulled over, and presented to CUNA's Board by the Renaissance Commission,...

SAN DIEGO - Ideas on how to head off holiday debt and avoid the financial stresses of the Christmas season were offered to television viewers here by an official at First Future Credit Union. Jim Goulet, executive vice president of the $590 million First Future - formed earlier this year...