Save the date: Salal CU’s Annual Meeting

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Be a full participant in your credit union: attend our Annual Meeting! The Salal Credit Union Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to meet the CU’s Board of Directors and key committee members, as well as the President and CEO, John Iglesias, and the members of his senior team. Make your voice heard on the [...]

Make taxes less taxing

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Once again, Salal CU is offering its members free or reduced-price access to TurboTax, America’s most popular tax preparation software! Salal’s arrangement with TurboTax makes doing your taxes quicker and more accurate—because the tax forms are pre-populated with your information, you spend less time chasing after numbers and entering them in, reducing your risk of [...]

Moving? Drop us a note!

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Moving is stressful, no doubt about it. With so many things to do and so much to remember, it’s understandable when a detail or two slips quietly through the cracks. If you are going to be moving in the next month or two, there are lots of good checklists on the Internet to help you [...]

Four Tips for Resisting the Impulse to Shop

Monday, November 29th, 2010

For a lot of people, impulse shopping can be a great stress reliever—it makes us feel good to go out and treat ourselves to that new gadget or article of clothing. Of course, for a lot of us, impulse shopping can lead to greater stress a short time later: buyer’s remorse, increased debt and feelings [...]

Salal CU in the Community

Monday, November 29th, 2010

In early November, Salal CU held its annual All-Staff Meeting. It’s the one day a year when we all get together to hear from our President & CEO, John Iglesias, on the state of the credit union, share best practices and reconnect with one another. This year’s theme was “Salal is Service Driven,” and in [...]

Update on the Upgrade!

Monday, November 29th, 2010

In a recent News You Can Use, we announced that Salal CU is beginning work on an upgrade to the Credit Union’s system software. This is the complicated software program that allows a financial institution to do its business: it stores our member records, contains information about our products, generates our statements, etc. Like all [...]

President’s Message

Monday, November 29th, 2010

The holidays are upon us, and already there are delicious things to eat in our lunch and conference rooms, the stores are waving us in with sales and deals and one-of-a-kind offers, and everywhere we turn, someone is encouraging us to “indulge” ourselves.  Wouldn’t it be nice to have a holiday season with no extra [...]

“Sniffer” Scam on Capitol Hill

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

According to Connie Thompson of KOMO News, high-tech “sniffer” technology may be behind much of the credit and debit card fraud happening on Seattle’s Capitol Hill in recent days. Sniffers, writes Thompson, are malware used to “intercept customer card information between the point of sale and the processing company.” This technology is particularly targeted at [...]

Service Interruptions to Online Bill Pay, Update

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

The vendor that is responsible for Salal’s Online Bill Payer is currently experiencing service interruptions. This means that members are unable to log on to Bill Pay to see or make changes to their service. If you have a pressing need, you may be able to make a payment by supplying Salal’s routing number and [...]