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WESTERLY, R.I.–Westerly Community Credit Union has  been voted the #1 Best Bank by the Sun Media Group's Third Annual Readers' Choice Awards 2019. 

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group has announced that  registration is now open for its 10^th annual Discovery Conference being held on Aug. 15. 

PURCHASE, N.Y.–Mastercard reported it has entered into a collaboration with Samsung to explore and deliver a better way for people to conveniently and securely verify their digital identity on the mobile devices they use every day.

BRUSSELS–The European Commission has agreed to Ireland’s credit unions additional time to complete their restructuring. 

NEW YORK CITY– Municipal Credit Union (MCU) has awarded $71,000 in scholarships to college-bound graduating high school seniors: nine memorial scholarship grants of $5,000 each and 13 grants of $2,000 each. 

KINGSTON, Jamaica–OK Sodality Cooperative Credit Union said it has partnered with two foreign companies to develop a financing program for renewable energy products targeted at micro, small- and medium-enterprises and low-income households.

NOVATO, Calif.–Redwood Credit Union (RCU) hosted a free document shredding event at Sutter Novato Community Hospital to which approximately  700 local residents brought old financial documents and other confidential paperwork—33,500 pounds in total—to be shredded by Shred-IT, which provided on-site shredding trucks for the credit union’s annual Shred-a-Thon event.

LAUREL, Mont.–Janice Lehman has spent nearly 40 years in credit unions, and was recently named as Montana Credit Union Professional of the Year by Montana’s Credit Unions.

With summer officially here (and with Southland CU in California officially dubbing itself the “Official Credit Union of Summer,” that only leaves three seasons to be snapped up and branded, so hurry), here are a few thoughts and observations as you head to the beach/pool/mountains (and now that I think of it, that also leaves opportunities for your CU to be the “Official Credit Union” of those, as well):

TAMPA, Fla.—When Apple rolls out its new credit card this summer, it won’t feature the traditional card number–and that’s expected to affect both the future of card design and costs for other issuers, payments experts told CUToday.info.