WASHINGTON-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) announced that he would like to see final action on seven appropriations bills by the end of this week. One of the bills to be considered is the Veterans Administration, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies (VA-HUD) bill, which includes the borrowing...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The $635 million Affinity Plus FCU here is temporarily revising some of its business practices to assist any of its members who are part of a strike affecting state workers. About 30-40% of the CU's 98,000 members are state workers, many who are part of the...

CLEARWATER, Fla.- CSCU and VISA want to send a lucky credit union to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City this December. The incentive package, donated by VISA, will be awarded to the CSCU member credit union that has demonstrated the strongest VISA growth in both volume and...

Card Systems for Credit Unions, has announced the winners of its 2000 Marketing Awards. Award recipients are honored based on their credit union card program excellence. Credit award winners had the most growth in account base between December 1999 and December 2000, the highest percentage growth in outstandings between December...

NEENAH, Wis. - How long will the economic slowdown last? How deep will the economy soften? These are questions nobody can reliably answer. For now at least, Dave Coggins, president of Business Lending Group can say this: the CUSO's loan portfolio is not showing any symptoms of the troubling economic...

AUSTIN, Texas - CUNA Mutual Group is now using the services of content management application firm Vignette Corporation (www.vignette.com) to power its Web site (www.cunamutual.com). CUNA Mutual went live in June with Vignette applications. More than 1,100 pages were converted for the site's implementation, and since the site went live...

Mike Welch correctly points out (CU Time, Oct. 3) that a number of important credit union meetings were cancelled in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. NAFCU's Congressional Caucus was one of those meetings. Simply stated, the NAFCU Board decided it could not send our members to the...

MADISON, Wis. - Just two weeks after announcing that its three-year Internet banking alignment with FundsXpress was over, CUNA Network Services has selected EDS to be its new Internet banking partner. CNS will now offer EDS' Virtual Branch Internet banking/bill pay solution to credit unions. Virtual Branch is currently used...