US Airways Federal Credit Union, Moon Township, Pa., has awarded four students with the 2001 Ralph B. Canterbury Scholarship. Applicants were judged based on a number of criteria including academic performance; community activities/involvement; a statement of personal goals and an essay on "What is a credit union anyway?" This year's...

TUKWILA, Wash. - Gary Oakland, president/CEO, Boeing Employees' Credit Union confirmed he received a letter from NCUA's Becky Baker acknowledging the agency's receipt of BECU's petition filed with NCUA for overhead transfer rate rulemaking. According to Oakland, NCUA's letter dated September 27, said the agency was studying Boeing's request and...

NEW YORK - As more details about September 11's attack on the World Trade Center continue to become evident, increased information about casualties from the tragedy is also becoming available. It was first believed that no credit union lives were lost in the attack, but it is now known that...

BEAVERTON, Ore. - First Tech CU CEO Tom Sargent says he's lucky to have friends such as New York Yankee greats Hank Bauer and Moose Skowron, but the luckiest may be the Doernbecher's Children's Hospital in Portland. For the second straight year First Tech CU has put together the "Hank...

DULUTH, Ga. - Look out CoinStar, Georgia Credit Union Affiliates and 23 statewide credit unions will now offer free coin counting services to members. cu-coin, the first credit union system free coin-counting operation in the state of Georgia, launched on October 2. Members can bring their loose coins to their...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland City Council Oct. 2 unanimously passed an anti-predatory lending ordinance that regulates many of the most abusive practices that characterize predatory lending. Addressed in the law are loan flipping, high points and fees, prepayment penalties, the financing of single premium credit insurance, steering borrowers into...

Looking back five years ago finds the credit union movement being called to action. In his first meeting with the press since taking over as CUNA CEO Dan Mica said, "We're a small entity but there is a fervor about what we do. There is an intensity and a belief...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New procedures making it easier for the state's 39 state-chartered credit unions to add select employee groups went into effect Sept. 19. Gov. George Pataki signed into law a bill introduced by Sen. Hugh Farley (R-Capital) and Assemblywoman Aurelia Greene (D-Metro) that gives CUs the flexibility to...