Pentagon FCU Intro's New SiteALEXANDRIA, Va.-Pentagon FCU has introduced a new website at PenFed.org, which it said will dramatically optimize the online user experience for its more than one million members. It said the new site makes completing transactions simpler and faster, as well as introduces a distinctive bold new user interface. The credit union called it the "first step" in creating a new experience online for its membership.FICO Scores Go Mobile At PSECUHARRISBURG, Penn.-Pennsylvania State Employees CU, which has been providing its checking account members with free FICO credit scores the past two years, is now offering the service over its mobile banking channel.has art: Shell ILifeiLife Adds Financial Lit ProgramDEER PARK, Texas-iLife, the online component of Shell FCU's youth program, has now introduced a financial literacy program. The new "Financial Hook UP' section includes information, videos, quizzes and blogs on topics that include saving, checking, budgeting, credit and more. Each topic has text, a video and a short quiz.P&F FCU Intro's Mobile AppPHILADELPHIA-Among the credit unions recently announcing new mobile banking solutions for members are Police & Fire FCU here, which has introduced mobile banking from CU Mobile Apps by Member Service Solutions, a Tennessee-based CUSO. The product's "AppEngine" platform works with both iPhones and Android devices. In Boulder, Colo., Elevations CU is offering free mobile banking apps for iPhone, Android, Mobile Web and Text.
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