FRANKLIN, Va.-To improve its already strong position with small businesses here, Bronco FCU has launched a website that it's inviting the entire local community to use.

ATLANTA-Delta Community CU said state regulators approved its request to add Hall County and its 200,000 residents to its field of membership.

NEW YORK-Nine in 10 young adults say they have financial goals, but just over half say they are able to stick to a monthly budget, according to a new survey.

MADISON, Wis.-The effects of debt-related stress on consumers is examined in a new report.

NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla.-Banks may be getting help from the federal government, but customers aren't getting any breaks from banks when it comes to fees. New data released by Bankrate.com found that bank fees are at an all-time high. The survey, which does not include credit unions, found:

MUSKEGO, Wis.-Corporate Central Credit Union is paying a $600,000 Patronage Refund for 2008 to its member credit unions. CCCU said it's the largest payout the corporate has made.

McLEAN, Va.-Freddie Mac said next year it plans to eliminate or lower the up-front fees it charges lenders on the largest loans it guarantees.

DUBLIN, Ohio-American Mutual Share Insurance Corp. (ASI) has changed its current pricing formula for primary share insurance, a move that should mean significant savings to most of the company's primary insured member credit unions starting in 2009.

LARGO, Fla.-Small CUs face the same problems as large credit unions, it's just that in some cases, the problems get bigger the smaller the CU.

DEI Incorporated, Cincinnati, Ohio, named Susan L. Philipsen senior interior designer.

MANCHESTER, N.H.-In a scene not seen in a century, credit union pioneers Alphonse Desjardins, Monsignor Pierre Hevey and Joseph Boivon all came together here to mark the 100th Anniversary of credit unions in the United States.

ICUL Sets CUPAC Fund Record

UPPER MARLBORO, Md.-NASA Federal Credit Union provides its 71,000 members shared branch locations, but it had resisted serving as a shared branch location for other credit unions' members, until now.

WASHINGTON-The two-part addition to the financial rescue plan unveiled last week could both help and hurt credit unions, albeit only indirectly, according to credit union economists.

Net Promoter Score (NPS,) as typically implemented through the "likely to recommend" zero to 10 question, remains a buzz in credit union marketing, primarily because it is simple to implement and easy to understand. It is also highly actionable...if one goes beyond the numbers.

I don't even like turkey but I LOVED this article-the quotes from the one CEO in particular were hysterical...I had no idea that Yogi Berra had worked in the credit union industry!

Unless you've been living in some sort of quasi- dream state for the past few years, you've inevitably heard of people, companies, cities, and even countries "going green."

DECEMBER

Last week, three men whose names you may recognize and who had not been in the same room in nearly a century, were all back in the same room again. All in all, you'd have to say they looked remarkably good, given all were born in the 1800s.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The Golden 1 Credit Union is launching a discount auto buying program designed to help members reduce the cost and time needed for their next car purchase.