BELLEVUE, Neb. — An SAC FCU teller was accosted as she arrived to work early this morning and forced to open the branch, then tied up as two assailants made off cash from the credit union.

IRMO, S.C. – Palmetto Cooperative Services LLC, a payments processing CUSO, on Wednesday said it has hired Brad Miller, former chief Washington lobbyist for corporate credit unions and later CEO at Southeast Corporate FCU, as its CEO.

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Midwest Business Solutions, a member business loan CUSO, yesterday said it has signed with VSoft to implement the company’s core banking system, CoreSoft, for core processing.

MADISON, S.D. – East River FCU has signed with Geezeo to offer the company’s integrated, white label personal financial management solution and engagement banking platform.

AMARILLO, Texas – Texas Plains FCU has named its chief financial officer, Kasha Young, as president and CEO of the $30-million credit union.

LINCOLN, Neb. – University of Nebraska FCU announced the hiring of Keith Kauffeld, chief administrative officer at Air Academy FCU in Colorado Springs, Colo., as president and CEO of the $70-million credit union.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Coastal FCU said it has signed with Jack Henry & Associates’ Symitar to implement the company’s Episys core processing platform in-house.

ORONO, Maine – University CU is planning to build a new, 16,000-square-foot Greek Revival-style structure that will serve as its administrative offices here.

LEOMINSTER, Mass. – The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston awarded Leominster CU a $150,000 Equity Builder grant to help low-income residents make down payments and pay closing costs on a mortgage.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – With the explosive growth in mobile banking, NCUA is cautioning CUs not to expand e-banking services without also implementing strong plans to manage risk in this area.

STRATFORD, Conn. – Credit unions are worried a proposal by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to use an expected loss method to measure loan losses will require them to increase loan loss reserves and are calling on the FASB to withdraw the proposal.

WASHINGTON – CUNA and NAFCU have been invited to testify at an April 10 hearing by the House Financial Services Committee, which has begun preliminary work to draft a regulatory relief bill.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said this afternoon it increased its subsidized lending from the U.S. Treasury to help fund the corporate credit union bailout last year to $5.1 billion, from $3.5 billion in 2011.

DALLAS – More than two dozen credit unions have agreed separately over the past two months to settle civil suit related to the Americans With Disabilities Act and access for the blind to their ATMs, as the latest flurry of ATM suits continues to accelerate.

SEATTLE – Six credit unions have joined to offer $5,000 monthly prizes and a $5,000 annual prize for the state’s Save To Win lottery, the fourth state to offer the savings contest.

WABAN, Mass. – Credit unions as an industry have finished atop one research firm’s Customer Experience Ratings.

BETHESDA, Md. – Allpoint Network announced the addition of 5,000 ATMs, many of which provide member financial service providers and their account holders enhanced cash access options in the Upper Midwest and northern Plains states, bringing its surcharge-free network to 55,000 ATMs.

UNION GAP, Wash. – State Highway CU has signed with CU*NorthWest to convert to the CUSO’s CU*BASE GOLD core data processing system.

ISHPEMING, Mich. – Ishpeming Community CU will integrate Geezeo’s personal financial management product into its online banking platform.

ORLANDO, Fla. – MidFlorida CU has introduced Shastic’s social loan calculator for Facebook, known as Calcubot.