HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The Bank Insurance & Securities Association annual conference here featured a session that would play equally well at any CU meeting: the role of corporate culture.

WASHINGTON - NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson told Congress last week that while credit unions have been expanding their services to low-income members, they have so far avoided the troubles spreading through the subprime mortgage market.

SC Telco Federal Credit Union, Greenville, S.C., donated $3,833 t the Bell South Pioneers in support of the Kid's Perfect Campaign.

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MONTPELIER, Vt. - Members of Vermont State Employees CU voted down a proposal to change the name of the state's second largest credit union to Veristate CU, the second time members rejected a name change.

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Credit unions have relied on the fact that banks tended not to be interested in smaller business loans, but that is beginning to change, according to new research by TowerGroup.

SC Telco Federal Credit Union, Greenville, S.C., donated $3,833 t the Bell South Pioneers in support of the Kid's Perfect Campaign.

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Nationally, we are experiencing total construction costs at an average of 8% higher than last year's costs. And while there has been a downturn in the residential market over the last few months, the total residential construction value is still 50% more than what it was just four years ago.

PORTLAND, Mich. - Portland FCU broke ground on a project to build a new administrative offices. The new building will serve as the headquarters for the $175 million credit union. The facility will be a two-story, 28,000 square-foot building with five drive-thru lanes and an ATM. Completion is slated for next March. Clark Construction will build the project. The credit union plans to sell its 40-year-old headquarters building.

SAN DIEGO - CUSO Financial Services LP, which provides broker-dealer services for more than 100 credit unions, paid out $4 million of its $6 million net for 2006 to its credit union partners as a partnership dividend. The 10-year-old broker-dealer for credit unions reported revenues of $47 million in 2006 and net income of $6 million. Credit unions are limited partners in the general partnership.

PASADENA, Calif. - Credit unions raised more than $170,000 last week for California Credit Unions for Kids during the second annual wine auction, held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel.

NEWARK, N.J. - Three weeks into a hostile takeover battle for Continental FCU, few of the members at the embattled credit union's Newark Liberty International Airport outpost even know of the offer by Wings Financial FCU to acquire their CU.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - The Bank Insurance & Securities Association annual conference here featured a session that would play equally well at any CU meeting: the role of corporate culture.

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NEWARK, N.J. - Three weeks into a hostile takeover battle for Continental FCU, few of the members at the embattled credit union's Newark Liberty International Airport outpost even know of the offer by Wings Financial FCU to acquire their CU.

WASHINGTON - A new proposal to regulate the secondary mortgage market was passed by the House Financial Services Committee last week, for the third straight Congress.

DEARBORN - Two area credit unions have responded to a local legislator's call to help low income families make the best use of their tax refund money.

BREMERTON, Wash. - At least two people printed their own checks off a fraudulent credit union account to go on a car-buying spree, but they made the mistake of listing the police station as the address for the credit union, according to police.