CUMBERLAND, Md. - In a ruling that could have statewide impact, residents in area towns are being notified by local officials that credit unions can no longer accept their property tax payments. That's after they discovered there was no provision for credit unions in the state statute allowing banks and S&Ls to collect tax payments. The Allegany County Finance Director asked for and received a legal opinion from the state treasurer on whether using CUs is permissible and was told they are not.

WASHINGTON - Credit unions not welcome.

AUSTIN, Texas - Amplify FCU here has turned Internet banking up a notch with a credit-union owned, web-based money management tool called MoneyTracker, upstaging the much-anticipated release this month of a similar tool by Intuit, called FinanceWorks.

PURCHASE, N.Y. - Financial education needs to start before financial problems start-that's why Quorum CU created the Select Savers Club.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Mobile banking is both "what's hot" and "what's not" in financial services.

HONOLULU — The nation's credit unions, especially defense credit unions, are eagerly awaiting a final rule, due any day, setting new predatory lending rules for military personnel.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Several credit unions are reporting they are moving their homebanking, security and networking business to a company that may be new to many within CUs-PM Systems Corp. (PMSC) in Chapin, S.C.

Feel it's time for you to hear my side of the story on "the little scuffle" that broke out between Hubert Hoosman and me at the GAC back in February. The "dust up" occurred downstairs around the exhibit area near the Washington Hilton coffee shop. Evidently, several of you who witnessed the brouhaha assumed it was a "racial incident" and, knowing Hubert Hoosman to be a fine gentleman, readily assumed that I had provoked the whole thing! Well, you're right, it was my fault. But, just perhaps, you may have reached the right conclusion for entirely the wrong reasons. Let me explain.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The east side of Phoenix might as well be Mars for members who live on the west side.

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine CU League's statewide marketing campaign is scheduled to hit the radio airwaves this morning with its 'I Save' message. The three-week radio ads will compliment an ongoing TV campaign by using the same audio, and will be broadcast on every station in the state. The aim is to maintain a consistent message and complement the league's television commercials while they are not running this summer, according to John Murphy, president of the league.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Demand for mobile banking may be growing at a snail's pace, but Washington State Employees Credit Union (WSECU) is prepared to wait until members are ready.

Federation To Raise $25M For Capital Program

Federation To Raise $25M For Capital Program

MIDDLETOWN, Penn. - When Edward S. Fox retires as CEO of Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU next year, the part of the job he'll miss the most is what he calls "the people thing."

Throughout 2007, the Credit Union Journal is profiling the credit unions of each U.S. state and D.C. Rather than appear in alphabetical order, the states are being featured in the order they became states.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Several credit unions are reporting they are moving their homebanking, security and networking business to a company that may be new to many within CUs-PM Systems Corp. (PMSC) in Chapin, S.C.

PURCHASE, N.Y. - Financial education needs to start before financial problems start-that's why Quorum CU created the Select Savers Club.

How Late Auto Payment Can Affect Credit Score

WASHINGTON - Credit unions not welcome.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Mobile banking is both "what's hot" and "what's not" in financial services.