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BOCA RATON, Fla. – Credit unions got some advice from two disparate sources here yesterday: the general manager of the Oakland A’s and a former member of the Doobie Brothers who is now a defense expert.

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Wright-Patt CU is expanding its field of membership to serve all 800,000 residents of Cincinnati and surrounding Hamilton County.

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Bethpage FCU continues to average more than 550 new checking accounts per week, volume it credits to momentum built in the weeks and months leading up to 2011’s Bank Transfer Day.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Credit unions across Connecticut on Monday unveiled a new multi-media campaign featuring ads in the state’s biggest print and on-air media.

Growth in tax refunds deposited into prepaid card accounts plus a mild winter across most of the country helped bolster Cardtronics Inc.’s first-quarter earnings, the company announced April 30.

BALTIMORE–Two large merchants here at NACHA’s Payments 2012 conference expressed decidedly negative views toward the U.S. path to EMV chip card adoption.

In the wake of its Loopt acquisition, Green Dot Corp. is considering licensing its technology unit's geolocation patents to retailers and financial services companies.

WASHINGTON–The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has extended the comment period until June 29 for its public inquiry into overdraft practices.

Self-Help Credit Union of Durham, N.C., has signed with EasCorp Federal Credit Union’s Vertifi to offer the credit union service organization’s DeposZip mobile remote deposit capture service.

Courtesy pay, or overdraft protections, continues to be a good source for non-interest income for credit unions, according to Jim Craig, director of Geezeo Interactive.