Community America Credit Union

• Online Banking Having Impact Locally ; Banks: Physical Locations Still Important

The future of banking may involve fewer brick buildings and more smartphones, if recent closures are a reliable clue. Two Community America credit union branches will close Dec. 31, and CoreFirst Bank & Trust will close three of its branches at the end of January.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• December 15, 2012

• Community America Closing Local Branches ; 2 Credit Unions to Shut Down at End of Year

A Lenexa-based credit union is closing its two Topeka locations at the end of the year. Community America credit union customers in Topeka received a three-page letter earlier this month announcing two locations in the capital city, one at 1129 S. Kansas Ave. and the other inside the Hy- Vee store at 2951 S.W. Wanamaker, will close Dec. 31.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• June 22, 2012

• Building Rapport

Attracting members from an underserved cultural group begins, literally, at a credit union's front door. What color that door is painted, how traditionally it is designed, where it is located and what space it opens in to, combine to create a statement about the CU to other cultures. Reportedly the fastest growing community CU in North America, Latino Community Credit Union in Durham, NC, is growing at a rate of 1,200 members per month. That growth is largely attributable to the welcoming, culturally understanding message its image send to the community via every channel, including facility design. Flags from Guatemala to Barbados and the US to Kenya fly above the credit union door. Selecting a community location lays the first cornerstone of relationship development, an even more criti...

• Credit Union Management
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 9, September 2004

• Steel Works Community Credit Union Changes Name to First Choice America

Steel Works Community Federal Credit Union has changed its name to First Choice America in an effort to broaden its consumer appeal. The name change, ...

• State Journal, The
• August 12, 2009

• Federal Home Loan Bank Members Selected for Community Support Review

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is announcing the Federal Home Loan Bank (Bank) members it has selected for the 2010 seventh round review cycle under the FHFA's community support requirements regulation. This notice also prescribes the deadline by which Bank members selected for review must submit Community Support Statements to FHFA.

...First New England Federal Credit Union.... East Hartford....... Connecticut. Bank... Massachusetts. Luso-American Credit Union.......... Peabody.......... Massach...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 58542, September 21, 2012
• Notices
• Federal Housing Finance Agency

• From Classic to Pop

Performers: The United States Air Force Heartland of America Band Sponsors: TH Media and Dupaco Community Credit Union

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 06, 2013

• Small Banks Look to Take Advantage of Backlash On Fees

Some community bankers and credit union officials are publicly berating Bank of America's plan to start charging debit card fees next year and say they will continue to offer free checking and no debit fees. Lourdes Cortez, president and chief executive officer of North Jersey Federal Credit Union of Totowa, said last week in a statement e-mailed to the media that Bank of America's debit card fee represents "yet another opportunity for North Jersey Federal to increase its membership due to mounting consumer and business disappointment with big banks.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• October 21, 2011

• Acb Leadership Focuses On Credit Union Competition

The leaders of America's Community Bankers focused on credit union competition as they outlined goals for the coming year. Mark Macomber, president and CEO of Litchfield Bancorp (Connecticut) became the association's 2006-2007 chairman, taking the gavel from Weller Meyer, chairman, president and CEO of Acacia Federal Savings Bank (Falls Church, Virginia). They both addressed bankers attending the ACB annual convention last month in San Diego. Macomber said he is a mutual community banker. He is part of the industry that lost the tax exemption more than 40 years ago because Congress felt that mutual community banks were like other banks and should pay taxes. Mutual community banks have thrived since then. Meyer said progress has been made on credit union competition because of the work o...

• Northwestern Financial Review
• August 12, 2009

• Ceos Make First-Ever Joint Appearance to Express Opposition to Debit Amendment ; Cuna Ceo Dan Mica, Icba Ceo Camden Fine, and Nafcu Ceo Fred Becker Expressed Opposition to Debit Fee Amendment That Will Cripple Small Financial Institutions, Consumers

WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In an historic joint appearance on Wednesday, the CEOs of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), and National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU) expressed their organizations' unified opposition to the debit fee amendment that was included in the Senate version of S. 3217, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010. The amendment would lower debit card acceptance rates for retailers, forcing debit card issuers to charge consumers for this loss of critical revenue or to stop issuing cards altogether. Speaking via live online broadcast, the CEOs discussed the harmful impact of the amendment on their member organizations, and explained why the so-called "carve out" for small fi...

• U.S. Newswire
• June 10, 2010

• People in Business

* F. James Kolf, project delivery principal of The Durrant Group, Inc., earned the designation of Certified Construction Manager from the Construction Management Association of America. * DuTrac Community Credit Union announced the following:

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• April 11, 2004