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The pinch of the recession was barely felt at $5.7-billion San Diego County Credit Union, which has followed a small loss in 2008 with four straight years of solid income-with more expected in 2013.

For $669-million One Nevada Credit Union, the omnipresent watchful eye of "Big Brother" is a good thing.

An open core system that allows credit unions to easily add and share new functionality is not only key to individual CU growth this year, but to the entire credit union community as well, asserts Open Solutions.

For $2.1-billion Redwood Credit Union the recession did not bring the kinds of losses than plagued many CUs, but it did knock a hole in its normally robust lending portfolio.

Credit unions of all assets and locations share one thing in common: it's imperative that they grow. That's why Growth will be the only item on the agenda at Credit Union Journal's Grow Show 2013, which is now set for May 30-31 in Orlando.

One person believes that home equity lending could be a major boon for credit union growth in the new year.

The sentiments behind Bank Transfer Day is still out there, and $746-million Xceed Financial CU intends to tap it.

Mission Federal Credit Union has launched "Mission Fed Money Match," a program that matches the dollar amount of winning members' loan payments, debit or credit card purchases, or direct deposits, up to a certain amount per transaction type.

Many personal financial management tools were designed to pool payment data from multiple accounts, but a few companies are testing a different premise by offering tools to analyze the data of just one account.

Canada's right next door and has lots of English speakers, so it might seem the ideal place for American independent sales organizations to expand. But the two countries' business and cultural practices differ in ways that Americans may not expect.