Through the first three quarters of 2011 The Golden 1 Credit Union had by far the most mortgage originations of any CU in California-and it is actively advertising for more.

Mortgage originations today contain many of the same risk characteristics as found in years past, but Teresa Halleck, president and CEO of San Diego County Credit Union, said there is one important difference.

ASCU Receives 167 HARP Apps

Webster FCU announced last week a deal for Filene FCU, one of the oldest credit unions in Boston and which serves employees of the famous retail chain once run by credit union pioneer Edward Filene.

Redwood CU, Santa Rosa, Calif., named Todd Lindemann SVP of innovation and strategy.

Even as they criticize the credit union tax exemption on Capitol Hill, more and more banks are opting for their own tax-exempt charter under the designation of a closely held Subchapter S corporation, enabling banks to claim a tax exemption roughly equivalent to that for all of the nation's 7,200 credit unions.

Although the easy answer seems to be $318-million Telesis Community Credit Union was taken into conservatorship by the California Department of Financial Institutions due to its extensive member business lending activities, other circumstances also were involved.

The lending formula at University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union isn't one common to most credit unions, but then, neither is its success-nearly 20% loan growth during the last four years.

More than 30 years ago, Larry Wilson could never really enjoy a Saturday night dinner with his family because he always had to service the ATM at his Credit Union.

Boutwell Wins Levins Award

Public Service Credit Union, the former Public Service Credit Union Financial Services, is partnering with the Credit Union Association of New Mexico to offer a reloadable prepaid Visa card for teens.

A discussion of the Credit Union National Association's Governmental Affairs Conference.

CEO Francis R. Harmon of Delta-Wye Federal Credit Union discusses his issues with the National Credit Union Assoctiation's micro-management style.

As a credit union leader you know this is the time to live up to your title.

ATLANTA – Visa has taken a rare step and dropped payments processor Global Payments Inc. from its list of approved service providers after the company reported last week that as many as 1.5 million credit union and bank card accounts may have been compromised by hackers.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A technical problem affecting the Visa network barred people from using their credit and debit cards for about 45 minutes on Sunday, the cards company said.

BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

INDIANAPOLIS – CU Card Center, a subsidiary of the Indiana CU League’s Servicecorp, has signed with Innovative Card Services to offer Visa gift, travel money and general purpose reloadable cards.

SAN ANTONIO – Security Service FCU on Friday said it has expanded it field of membership to serve employees, students and alumni of The University of Texas at San Antonio.

DALLAS – Dallas Telco FCU is shedding its telephone company roots and adopting a new moniker, GO FCU, to better reflect its broader geographic field of membership.