Kessler Financial Services, a sales/marketing firm has named John Zdebski vice president of credit union partnership development. Fagliarone Group CPAs, PC, a regional certified public accounting firm, has named James N. D'Imperio senior auditor; Michelle Taylor, staff accountant; and James Czaplicki staff accountant. HBE Corporation, a design/build firm, has named...

WASHINGTON-The House passed a bill November 6 to create a computerized network linking the anti-fraud databases of the nation's financial regulators and law enforcement agencies. The Financial Services Antifraud Network Act (H.R. 1408), sponsored by ex-FBI agent and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), passed overwhelmingly by a vote of 392 to...

NASSAU, Bahamas - Hurricane Michelle reportedly lost some of its strength as it moved off Cuba on Monday, but it still had enough power to wallop the Bahamas capital with 85 mph winds, drench the island with as much as three feet of rain in some places, and force the...

Olin Community Credit Union, East Alton, Ill., has awarded HBE Financial Facilities with a design/build contract for its Bethalto branch. The new facility will be a two-story, 22,000 square-foot, steel structure with a brick exterior. The first floor will accommodate a full service branch including mortgage department and the second...

LONDON, U.K. - The English Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is tackling the loan shark problem by modernizing the Consumer Credit Act of 1974. As the European Union also looks at ways to deal with the same problem, the Association of British Credit Unions Ltd. (ABCUL) says the strategy...

WASHINGTON-The long-awaited bankruptcy conference is expected to begin November 14, according to credit union lobbyists. It was originally scheduled for September 12 and rescheduled for the November 12, after the September 11 attacks, but delayed again. The bill has moved slowly but steadily through Congress this session and was most...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Not in her wildest dreams did U.S. Senate FCU President/CEO Jan Roche ever imagine she'd be taking an antibiotic to combat a strain of the deadly anthrax disease, but these are not ordinary times. No credit union has had a more up close and personal view of...

TUCSON, Arizona - Though recent events have led to a sharp decline in business travel, nothing was going to stop XP Systems clients from missing the firm's annual users conference - especially with what was in store for them this year. Over 600 XP users, a record number, attended the...