INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Members CU has extended its relationship with Fiserv and said it will continue to utilize a host of Fiserv solutions to deliver member-centric products and services, in addition to solutions to impact back-office efficiencies.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Carolina Collegiate FCU has signed with Shastic to implement the company’s online loan calculator for Facebook, called Calcubot.

TAMPA, Fla. – A former manager of a Suncoast Schools FCU branch who was awaiting sentencing for stealing more than $250,000 from member accounts died suddenly Monday, a week before she was scheduled to be sentenced.

WASHINGTON – Rep. Ed Perlmutter, the chief sponsor of a bill to allow banking for legal marijuana services, yesterday said he plans to seek a hearing on the measure as Congress returns from its summer recess.

WASHINGTON – Numerous members of the House and Senate made their support for the credit union tax exemption clear this week during NAFCU’s Congressional Caucus, even before any threat to the exemption has surfaced during the debate over tax reform.

WASHINGTON – MasterCard’s chief lobbyist on Wednesday told credit union executives merchants will not end their fight over card interchange, even after piling up big wins on the Durbin amendment, the pending antitrust settlement and the recent court decision overruling the Federal Reserve’s debit cap as too low.

COLUMBUS, Ga. – A state grand jury has cleared of any criminal wrongdoing a police officer who shot and killed an innocent bystander in September 2011 while he was chasing down a man who had held up MEA CU moments before.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Y-12 FCU announced the hiring of Mark Ziegler, vice president of lending at MAX CU, as president and CEO of the $700 million credit union.

CASPER, Wyo. -- A 17-year-old’s extravagant spending spree led police to question his involvement in and his eventual confession to the Aug. 28 armed robbery of River-Rail CU.

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department and federal regulators will help clear the way for credit unions and banks to transact business with the legitimate marijuana industry without fear of prosecution, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Congress yesterday.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – First New York FCU, the one-time Schenectady Teachers credit union, named Lucy Halstead, senior vice president and chief operating officer, as president and CEO of the $260-million credit union.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Pikes Peak CU has signed with CheckAlt, iParse and CU Wireless as its providers for mobile deposit capture.

SAGINAW, Mich. – Wildfire CU has selected Fiserv’s DNA account processing platform and a comprehensive set of integrated solutions.

BOULDER, Colo. – Premier Members CU has deployed Integrated Media Management’s Document Exchange, its cloud-based eSignature solution.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Piedmont Advantage CU has broadly expanded its relationship with CO-OP Financial Services, adding mobile services, and debit and credit processing from the company.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – The National Institutes of Health FCU has hired a real estate consultant, Scheer Partners, to find it a 20,000-square-foot property near the area’s biotechnical hub for a new headquarters.

WASHINGTON – House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling told credit union executives during NAFCU’s Congressional Caucus he wants to accelerate reform of the secondary mortgage market with the phase down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the next five-to-seven years and the elimination of the federal guarantee on mortgages they buy.

WASHINGTON – Ginnie Mae this week presented itself to credit unions as an additional way to sell their mortgages on the secondary market, with a new conduit it is issuing with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago.

CLEVELAND – A federal court dismissed a suit brought by the former CEO of Clyde-Findlay Area CU who was fired in 2011 because of an alleged affair with the director of human resources.

HOUSTON, Texas -- The former CEO of Deer Park FCU was sentenced to six years in state jail for stealing almost $220,000 from the credit union.