"That we could all have a day off and a budget such that we could afford to help every needy family that has suffered as a result of the World Trade Center terrorist attack" -Nassau Educators FCU AVP of Marketing Mark Head "That I and half my staff would be...

NEW YORK - With now a total of 50 ATMs located throughout Manhattan, Actors Federal Credit Union has made good on its tagline "Our buck stops at your stop". "This year has been very generous to us in terms of ATM placement," said AFCU President Jeff Rodman. "We ended last...

Unless the NCUA Board acts this week, the agency's controversial CAP provisions will go into full effect on December 31. By that date, existing federal community charter credit unions must have designed a "Community Action Plan" to describe how they plan to address the needs of the "underserved portions of...

TAMPA, Fla. - At just 18-months old, ePSCU, the e-commerce unit of Payment Systems for Credit Unions, was starting up right around the time dot-com companies were starting to go bust. Even dot-com companies solely focusing on the credit union space were going belly up. Portal companies like MembersResources.com and...

WASHINGTON - Instead of attacking the practice of auto dealers' 0% financing with the Fed as it did unsuccessfully almost two years ago, CUNA plans to try a different approach in the coming weeks. CUNA's Assistant General Counsel Jeffrey Bloch will pen a letter to the Fed with a singular...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Horror stories abound about the punishment a data processing conversion can put on a credit union's staff and the processors involved. Internet banking conversions don't rank up there in terms of difficulty, but they do need to be well-planned, says one CU here who recently went through...

SAN DIMAS, Calif. - The search committee tasked with finding the successor to WesCorp President/CEO Dick Johnson, who announced his retirement last month, is spreading the word about the opening of the top spot at the nation's largest corporate. The committee, through an outside firm, has contacted the CEOs of...

When's a good time to bring your Internet banking down for a routine software upgrade? How about halting audio response to move the system to a new server? Or those unpredictable but inevitable outages - like a disk crash or CPU failure. When's a good time for those events to...