ALEXANDRIA-NCUA wrote the Federal Communications Commission in response to their questions regarding updating and revising An Interpretive Guide to the Government in the Sunshine Act, published in 1978. First, NCUA said the law should not constrain informal discussion of agency matters among board members. Under the Sunshine Act, a meeting...

PERTH, Australia and CLONMEL, Ireland - Hungry? Too busy to shop? StateWest Credit Union members have an advantage. They can do their grocery shopping at the same time they check out their credit union's Web site. On-line grocery shopping may not be unusual, but the convenience of doing it from...

AUSTIN, Texas - FIData, an Internet lending solutions and call center firm, has cut an undetermined number of jobs. "We've had some cutbacks. FIData is not going out of business. It is true we have made some cutbacks we felt were necessary because of a sales slowdown," said David P....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A link with Midwest Payment Systems now gives over 200 Midwest and Northeastern MPS processed credit unions access to the Credit Union 24 Network. The new link will give CU 24 network participants access at such retail stores as Walgreens, Eckerds and Kroger. MPS processes more than...

Much of what affects credit unions either starts or ends in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. CUNA's Washington headquarters are within D.C. city limits and NCUA and NAFCU are headquartered just outside the city in Northern, Va.. Of course Congress, where credit unions have become a lobbying force, is often...

SYDNEY, Australia - If people die in Australia without a will, the State will make the decision on how property is distributed. According to a recent study, the Credit Union Services Corporation of Australia, Ltd. (CUSCAL) discovered that four of every 10 people do not have a will. CUSCAL commissioned...

SYDNEY, Australia - Credit unions down under can crow as they read about a new study on financial service customer satisfaction. Not only are they highly rated, they are winning the battle. The research is done periodically by a group called Eureka. They report that only one in four customers...

SALT LAKE CITY - Credit union core processor Computer Consultants Corporation (www.cccorp.com) has announced that both its Mercury and Director 4 credit union information software systems are now fully compatible with Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system. New Mercury or Mercury-On-Demand users are free to choose hardware with either Windows...