SAN DIMAS, Calif. - WesCorp said it will become the first corporate to market DEPOSIT CHEK, a check loss prevention service offered by Primary Payment Systems. DEPOSIT CHEK provides advance notification of potential check returns by offering credit unions access to a national shared repository comprised of shared account and...

BRAINERD, Minn. - The National Association of Community Credit Unions' third annual conference held recently in Charleston, South Carolina attracted over 100 attendees. Ray Burnett, NACCU's Chairman and President/CEO of Mid Minnesota FCU, said membership is up 47% this year. The fledgling group is only about three-years old. "Community charters...

OMAHA, Neb. - First Data Resources, a card issuing services subsidiary of First Data Corporation, has become the first U.S. processor certified to personalize MasterCard smart cards on the MULTOS operating system. "Now that the infrastructure is in place to enable U.S. financial institutions to issue MULTOS cards, we look...

Mike Welch seems determined to portray CUNA as coming up short in its membership policies in his recent column ("There are different ways to define membership", Credit Union Times, September 19, 2001). He complains that CUNA member credit unions are not "direct" members as they are in NAFCU because they...