SAN ANTONIO - It started out four years ago with the best of intentions to provide staffing services to credit unions in the area, but on June 30 the San Antonio branch of Credit Union Employment Resources (CUER) will close its doors for business. Carmela McDermott, assistant vice president for...

GERMANTOWN, Tenn. - There's wireless, and then there's aggregation. In the case of uMonitor, the two go hand-on-hand. uMonitor, an account aggregation firm, built its product from day one to be run on wireless devices. uMonitor President/CEO Dinesh Sheth, who founded uMonitor, has a strong wireless background. He was the...

Great article in the May 30 issue of Credit Union Times, "Retained servicing not just for large credit unions anymore." A mortgage is more than a financial instrument - it is a member relationship. Credit unions should not sell servicing unless the buyer is willing and able to service the...

HOUSTON, Texas - If calamity is man's true touchstone, the Great Flood of 2001 has certainly tested the mettle of the credit union community here and throughout the state. Over a two-day period-June 9 and 10-Tropical Storm Allison caused massive flooding in more than 28 Texas counties near the Gulf...

LOS ANGELES - Smart card supplier Oberthur Card Systems and Litton PRC, a smart card integration firm, have been awarded a contract to supply an additional 600,000 Common Access ID chip cards to the Department of Defense (DoD), bringing the total to 700,000 cards for the past year. The chips...

HONG KONG - The Asian Credit Union Forum 2001 will be held September 21-22 in Hong Kong. The two-day conference is sponsored by the Association of Asian Credit Unions (ACCU) and hosted by the Credit Union League of Hong Kong. The theme of this year's conference is the "Power of...

WALLINGFORD, Conn. - The corporate CU network as it's known has become more competitive in recent years according to many of its leaders, but cooperation is still alive and well - Constitution State Corporate CU is showing that. The $1 billion Constitution State Corporate CU formed SmartSource Solutions, a CUSO,...

CARSON CITY, Nev. - Gov. Kenny Guinn signed into law a bill supported by the Nevada Credit Union League that gives the commissioner of the Financial Institutions Division "wildcard" authority to grant state-chartered credit unions parity in their powers with federal credit unions. S.B. 330 was introduced by state Sen....