BOISE Idaho – The Idaho CO League announced Friday that Alan Cameron, its president since 2000, is retiring next June, one of two leagues announcing CEO vacancies on Friday.

EL PASO, Texas -- GECU is looking for good-looking El Pasoans to participate in a photo shoot for new a new marketing campaign.

TULSA, Okla. – A member of Tulsa FCU and Tulsa Teachers CU pleaded guilty Friday to using another person’s identity to borrow $230,000 and buy six vehicles, including a Winnebago motorhome from the two credit unions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – One lucky member of CommonWealth One FCU won a seven-night cruise for two to the Bahamas valued at up to $3,500.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Lucky students at the University of South Carolina are looking for “The Garnet Ticket” in the daily campus newspaper, the Daily Gamecock, a 13-week promotion enabling winners to exchange the ticket for $100 in cash from Carolina Collegiate FCU.

NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana woman joined the growing list of serial filers of Electronic Funds Transfer Suit, suing separate three credit unions and one bank Friday in federal court over their alleged failure to disclose fees charged to non-members on the outside of their machines.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Credit unions lost two long-time congressional supporters in two of the final California House seats to be called, Republicans Brian Bilbray and Mary Bono-Mack.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Two additional troubled credit unions have agreed to separate mergers, as the clean-up of the state’s credit union market continues.

NEW YORK – The vast majority of credit unions with a social media program, 94%, say they have a Facebook page, but a growing number are planning a Twitter campaign, according to a new study issued by Financial Brand, an online marketing publication for credit unions and banks.

After 10 days without power, employees at Public Service FCU here are getting tired of working in the cold and the dark, and warming their hands from the heat of desk lamps.

At the recent CUNA OpSS Council (Operations, Sales & Service) Credit Union Journal asked attendees to name the biggest challenge or challenges for their credit unions, from the OpSS perspective.

In a new survey of executive compensation and benefits in the credit union movement indicates that Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans (SERPs) are an increasingly important component of a credit union’s chief executive officer total pay.

P2P/digital wallets are likely here to stay, and credit unions need to be mindful of potential solutions and how they can help credit unions add new members and forge stronger relationships with existing ones.

After everything it went through after Sept. 11, 2001, Municipal CU thought it had disaster recovery down to a science, but Superstorm Sandy proved there’s always another lesson to be learned.

The best practice employed during a 2010 merger of $177.4-million Metro 1 CU into $1.6-billion Travis CU, Vacaville, Calif., was “communication, communication, communication.”

Chuck Bruen, CEO of First Entertainment believes the Technology Credit Union vote proves a lack of democracy.

True to his style, John Annaloro was too modest, but for those of us who had the privilege to work with him, his departure is a huge loss for credit unions.

Credit unions’ efforts to focus more on B and C credit should be made with an even more watchful eye now, cautioned several lending executives attending the 2012 CUNA Lending Council Conference.

Some credit unions are getting money back from the IRS due to rules related to healthcare, with one pocketing almost $7,000 this year that it says can be a nice little bump to the bottom line for smaller CUs.

What was initially dubbed a “Hackathon” actually turned into a game of “Knockout” here, as 100 CU technology execs competed to create innovative tech concepts over a 48-hour period.