Branch network

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. – Teachers FCU, Long Island’s biggest credit union, opened a new branch in Hauppauge on Monday, the $4.1-billion credit union’s 23rd service facility.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – Omni Community CU plans to open a branch in Kalamazoo, its seventh branch overall, in December at a site that once housed the Access First FCU branch.

WATERLOO, Iowa – Veridian CU opened a new branch in Coralville, the credit union’s 27th branch and second new facility in the past few months.

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Alaska USA FCU said has agreed to build a data center in north Glendale in 2012.

GLASTONBURY, Conn.-Highly efficient branches using teller capture are saving the front-line team 80% of their daily keystrokes and significantly shortening end-of-day activities.

HAMILTON, Ohio – Aur Group Financial CU has opened a student-run branch in Hamilton High School called Big Blue CU.

SILVERDALE, Wash. -- Navy FCU is moving its flagship branch here and is leaving its leased quarters for a credit union-owned 7,600-square-foot building.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Sunmark FCU said it has joined the Universal Sharing Network, the shared branch network in New York.

CHAMBERSBURG, Penn. -- 1st Ed CU is now live on the PaCUSC shared branching network, so its members can now go to other shared branching locations.

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Space Coast CU plans to launch a branch inside a Walmart Supercenter opening this week in New Smyrna Beach.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU opened its 38th branch and 8th inside a Walmart in the state capital of Concord last week.

WEST JORDAN, Utah – Mountain America CU, which has expanded into Nevada and Arizona in recent years, announced last week it is opening two branches in Idaho.

KENNEWICK, Wash. – HAPO Community CU agreed last week to acquire the city’s landmark building popularly nicknamed "the flashcube" and renovate it to accommodate a branch and administrative offices.

WEST CHESTER, Penn. – Benchmark FCU has joined the Pennsylvania CU Service Centers, adding its four branches to the local shared branch network.

ORLANDO, Fla. – CFE FCU held a grand opening for its second student-operated branch in an Orange County high school and fourth high school branch.

JACKSON, Miss. – Hope CU has opened a full-service branch in nearby Utica, two months after BancorpSouth, the town’s only bank, closed its branch there.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Vantage West CU has upgraded its 34 ATMs with Diebold technology, adding deposit automation to 11 of them.

HOUSTON – Cardtronics on Tuesday said it completed the acquisition of Access to Money, Inc., a troubled Cherry Hill, N.J.-based operator of 10,350 merchant-owned ATMs formerly known as TRM Corp.

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. – United FCU, which is poised to become one of the first credit unions to acquire a bank, on Monday said it plans to build a new headquarters and add up to 500 jobs by 2020.

FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio – The city council last week approved a pre-construction, seven-year tax abatement for the United Telephone CU for the construction of new administrative offices at the site of the former Cleveland Motel.