Bill Lehman, VP Portfolio Consulting with CSCU, provides strategies to help maintain and build interchange revenue.

NORFOLK, Va. – Five individuals were arrested Friday and charged with accessing information of people who had applied for housing at a Norfolk apartment complex to siphon almost $90,000 from the victim’s Navy FCU accounts.

A selection of images featuring credit unions’ efforts in their communities.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Banks have taken the opportunity over the last few years to improve the makeup and cost of their deposit bases before the interest rate environment turns and institutions once again place higher values on the attractive source of funding, according to new analysis from SNL Financial.

TORONTO – Canadian check printer Davis + Henderson, poised to complete the acquisition of Harland Financial Solutions from U.S. check printer Harland Clarke, reported a decline in second quarter profits to $13.6 million, from $20.9 million a year ago.

INDIANAPOLIS – FORUM CU announced the relaunch of its credit card program this year and has engaged The Members Group to assist in that effort.

GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. – Fulton County FCU will open a branch inside the new Walmart Supercenter Wednesday.

BROCKTON, Mass. – Crescent CU has applied to Massachusetts regulators to add Boston and surrounding Suffolk County and its 750,000 residents, plus five counties to its south in Rhode Island, to its field of membership.

LOS ANGELES – Goldman Sachs asked a federal court to suspend discovery in a suit brought by NCUA over the failures of U.S. Central FCU and WesCorp while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – one of two appeals courts reviewing the issue – determines whether the credit union regulator waited too long to bring its securities claims.

DURHAM, N.C. – State Employees’ CU is partnering with the City of Durham to help rehabilitate foreclosed homes in distressed neighborhoods through its recently formed property management CUSO, SECU*Real Estate, or SECU*RE.

MIAMI -- One of two men who robbed a Brink's armored car outside a Space Coast CU branch in January was sentenced to 10 years in prison this afternoon, but refused to tell authorities where the stolen $280,000 is hidden.

DAHLGREN, Va. – Harry Ovitt, Jr., the longtime CEO of NSWC FCU, was killed in a car accident on his way to work yesterday morning.

MORGAN HILL, Calif. – A San Jose man was arrested in his car in front of a Safeway here yesterday after he used one of 30 fake credit cards at the supermarket, most of them issued by Star One CU or Travis CU.

LEBANON, Penn. – The former manager of a LEBCO Educators FCU branch admitted in federal court he stole $60,000 from his employer during a six-year period before he eventually was fired.

INDIANAPOLIS – Family Horizons CU has signed with Geezeo to integrate the company’s personal financial management into its online banking platform.

HIGHLAND RANCH, Colo. – Red Rocks CU has applied to state regulators for a community charter serving 1.4 million residents of Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties.

COLONIE, N.Y. – CapCom FCU began construction on a new three-story, 118,400-square-foot home in this Albany suburb yesterday.

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. – Community CU has signed with Jack Henry & Associates’ Symitar to implement its Episys core processing solution.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Arrowhead Credit Union here has launched its new mobile app and online banking solutions with the help of 10 local college students.

WASHINGTON – Average mortgage rates were mixed in the latest week, showing little change following a weaker-than-expected July jobs report, according to Freddie Mac.