CANTON, N.C. – Champion CU yesterday said it has signed for regulatory compliance support and assistance from COMPASS 4 CUs.

CLYDE, Ohio – Clyde-Findlay Area CU has joined forces with Cooperative Business Services’ business loan origination platform, expanding the CUSO’s business lending footprint in the northwest Ohio market.

MANSFIELD, Texas – Artwork by Tiffany Nguyen, a fifth grade student at Garner Fine Arts Academy in Grand Prairie, soon will be appearing in the wallets of hundreds of Texas Trust CU debit card holders supporting the Grand Prairie ISD Education Foundation.

SAN FRANCISCO – Insurer Arch Capital Group Ltd., on Wednesday said it has made major changes to its proposed acquisition of CMG Mortgage Insurance because of concerns raised by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest creditors of troubled PMI, half owner, along with CUNA Mutual Group, of CMG MI.

LAKELAND, Fla. – Without Walls International Church, a local mega-church that has been inactive for two years, is fighting its second foreclosure in five years, this one filed by Evangelical Christian CU, which says the region’s biggest church owes it $13.9 million.

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. – The Massachusetts CU League said this afternoon that Dan Egan, who has headed the league for more than 30 years, as well as the New Hampshire and Rhode Island leagues the past two decades, will retire December 13.

WILMINGTON, Del. – Global technology vendor Serverside Group has agreed to dismiss patent infringement claims against several credit unions and card service providers as part of a settlement of a suit over its card customization technology.

FAIRFAX, Va. – FedComp, a provider of in house and online data processing solutions for 900 credit unions, has selected Ongoing Operations for its secure and redundant hosting platform.

SHAUMBERG, Ill. – Motorola Employees CU has gone live with a new real estate services program from CU Realty Services.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – Digital Employees FCU, the largest credit union in Massachusetts, has renewed its payments processing contract with The Members Group.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Employees CU has signed with SIGNiX to install the company’s digital signature solution so members can sign documents from any device with an Internet connection.

MOLINE, Ill. – Deere Employees CU has signed with VINtek to provide it with automotive collateral management services, including electronic lien and title.

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. – TopLine FCU said it has saved 1,000 members almost $250,000 in two years with its round-up savings program, called Sum-It-Up Savings.

GLENDALE, Calif. – Phillip Perkins, the investment manager who ran WesCorp under NCUA conservatorship after it failed, was hired as chief financial officer by Ice Energy, a provider of distributed energy storage and smart grid solutions.

ARLINGTON, Va. – NAFCU reported a slight decline in its net income for 2012, to $296,000, from $419,000 in 2011, due to increases in executive compensation.

WASHINGTON – Pressured by the high tech and financial services lobby, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at reining in proliferating patent infringement litigation and called on Congress to take tougher steps to protect innovative high-tech businesses.

CLEVELAND – NCUA has approved the expansion of Ohio Catholic FCU's charter to now include all Catholic Dioceses in the state of Ohio.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA reported it is investigating what it suspects was an elaborate fraud that led to December’s failure of G.I.C. FCU, a $16 million Euclid, Ohio, credit union and is projected to cost the National CU Share Insurance Fund more than $6 million in losses.

HENDERSON, Nev. – Bluepoint Solutions said Memphis, Tenn.-based Orion Federal Credit Union has selected its ImagePoint Teller solution and is leveraging the platform’s integration with Early Warning’s Deposit Chek Service to significantly reduce check losses.

HOUSTON – Cardtronics yesterday said it has acquired Merrimack ATM Group, a Rohnert Park, Calif., manager of 4,800 ATMs, most of them merchant-owned.