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What Grubhub, Uber Can Teach CUs About Loyalty And Rewards

PYMNTS

Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Dan Sullivan of Alaska entered the bill into consideration earlier this month, and several CU organizations — including the Hawaii and Alaska Credit Union Leagues as well as the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) — have so far praised it. percent of assets.

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Departure Delayed For Airline Recovery

PYMNTS

CNBC reported that American will also reduce or cut service to two dozen small and medium markets on passenger loads that are down roughly 75 percent overall from last year. The four largest U.S. billion loan.”.

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From Farce to Menace

Independent Banker

Even as nearly one-third of Americans are already members of a credit union, it seems there’s almost nothing the NCUA still won’t try to further expand the market reach and special tax-exempt privileges of the credit unions it supervises. Talk about your captive regulator! When credit unions say “jump,” the NCUA says, “how high?”.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. I just felt we needed to continue to grow,” Gowen explains. “If

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Auto lending up more than 30 percent at credit unions since 2012

Abrigo

A resurgent job market (with 257,000 U.S. And just as in mortgage lending , credit unions are seeing a bigger piece of the consumer loan pie. credit union auto lending portfolios are faring. Across the country used vehicle loans nearly doubled their new counterparts by lending volume. in January, a jump of 0.5

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Building from Scratch

Independent Banker

She got married to a Navy man and moved with him to Kodiak, Alaska, where she had a son. Higher-rate money market accounts had just been widely introduced, squeezing core interest margins. “I was under the impression that being a banker required a lot of education, and I had only attended high school.”.

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