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Credit unions often simply do not take advantage of their credit/debit portfolios as revenue streams. Here are some steps you can take that will make a meaningful difference to your bottom line in a post-Durbin environment.

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Many credit unionsoffer mobile banking, but they are struggling to keep up with members' clamoring for the more sophisticated services that mobile devices can deliver.

More bits and pieces from - if not of - the road.

With apologies to all the real cowboys and bronco riders out there, following are some steps that might help you ride out the economic downturn.

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Re: "Nonbank Mortgage Lenders Grapple with Licensing Mess": I take exception to an element of your otherwise exceptional reporting. For instance, "SAFE Act licensing is a much bigger issue for nonbank mortgage lenders, which, unlike their bank-owned competitors, must meet tougher educational requirements and take tests in every state where they want to be licensed."

As a commercial finance consultant and a former commercial banker, it is very clear to me that passage of H.R. 5297 is essential to developing any meaningful level of employment growth.

Notes from the road, beginning with the 1 CU Conference in Las Vegas, which was co-sponsored by CUNA and the World Council of Credit Unions, and which hosted 2,800 people from Australia through Zimbabwe.