The NCUA Board approved a new rule shifting to members some of the powers over credit union conversions to banks from boards and management who allegedly have tended to manipulate the process in recent charter switches.

Reader Poll Selects CU & MSR

Summit FCU has obtained permission to serve the 2,500 companies that make up the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, an estimated 250,000 employees.

Minnesota League Names CEO

Credit unions raised more than $25,000 in the final days of last month's mid-term elections to help fuel Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray's return to Congress.

SAN DIEGO - The second annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 19 will pit TCU (Texas Christian University) versus NIU (Northern Illinois University) on the football field, but the most important initials associated with the game will be ROI.

WHITTIER, Calif. - Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is no cure-all, especially now that phishers are using MFA as a ploy to trick members (see related story, page 1), making member education all the more important.

PHOENIX - Desert Schools FCU has ratchet up its visibility with a new kind of vehicle-30 pint-sized cars wrapped in promotional messages bearing the CU's blue-and-white colors.

SAN FRANCISCO - Pay By Touch, the acquisitive maker of fingerprint identification technology, has agreed to acquire loyalty pioneer S&H Solutions and its parent, S&H Greenpoint, for more than $100 million.

CUNA wasted little time after last month's elections in reaching out with campaign contributions to Democrat leaders who will control both chambers of Congress next year.

The July 31 issue of The Credit Union Journal featured an article entitled, "How to give paper, microfiche the COLD shoulder." This article overlooked the benefits of workflow as part of an enterprise content management (ECM) system. Once known simply as document imaging and COLD (Computer Output to Laser Disk), ECM is a term that has evolved to include a wide variety of applications common to most credit unions such as document imaging, workflow, electronic document management, COLD/ECM and records management-all important applications for a credit union of any size.

WASHINGTON - CUNA wasted little time after last month's elections in reaching out with campaign contributions to Democrat leaders who will control both chambers of Congress next year.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The NCUA Board approved a new rule shifting to members some of the powers over credit union conversions to banks from boards and management who allegedly have tended to manipulate the process in recent charter switches.

Tech Council Examines 'Under-Utilized' Technologies

Will "Web 2.0" finally fulfill the potential of the Internet to completely change the way we do business, or is there still a long road to go before we see the promise of the web come to fruition?

Quorum FCU said it has installed Source Technologies' new 7-Series self-service financial kiosks.

Democratic Congressman William Jefferson, the first African American elected to the House in Louisiana since Reconstruction, won easy reelection to the House last week in a special election, despite being the target of a well-publicized corruption probe. Jefferson won 57% of the vote against fellow Democrat, state Rep. Karen Carter to win his ninth term in the House, in a run-off required because Jefferson failed to gain a majority of votes on Nov. 7. Carter was unable to capitalize on a scandal that included allegations the FBI found $90,000 in bribe money in Jefferson's freezer.

WASHINGTON - CUNA was out writing campaign contributions of $38,000 just days after the elections, having already spent more than $3.5 million on the mid-term elections.

Will "Web 2.0" finally fulfill the potential of the Internet to completely change the way we do business, or is there still a long road to go before we see the promise of the web come to fruition?

Steven P. Williams, Principal, Cornerstone Advisors, Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz.