MANATEE, Fla. – Manatee Community FCU and CareerEdge of Florida Inc. have teamed with Enterprise Car Sales to offer an affordable car purchase program for low-income workers in Manatee County.

WASHINGTON – Department of Interior FCU has contracted with COMPASS 4 CUs to provide it with regulatory compliance support and assistance.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Pacific Marine CU has signed with Vertifi Software LLC to implement the CUSO’s DeposZip mobile remote deposit capture solution.

DEWITT, N.Y. – Countryside FCU has been approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a qualified lender for the SBA’s 7(a) loan guaranty program.

LINTHICUM, Md. – State Employees CU of Maryland officially opened its 22nd branch Monday at the University of Maryland in downtown Baltimore.

TAMPA, Fla. – Card Services for CUs, the nation’s largest card processor for credit unions, has chosen local advertising firm Dunn&Co. as its agency of record.

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Northwest Community CU has submitted a proposal to officials in Eugene to buy a 1.8-acre city-owned plot and develop it into a new headquarters for the $720 million credit union.

CLEVELAND – A hearing in the fraud trial of developer A. Eddy Zai was abruptly cancelled last week as lawyers for Zai, accused of obtaining $19 million in fraudulent loans from failed St. Paul Croatian FCU, have begun negotiating with federal prosecutors in an attempt to reach a plea deal.

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The Vermont State Employees CU said unencrypted computer tapes containing personal data and transaction records were inadvertently thrown into a landfill.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – Visa Inc. announced this morning that Charles Scharf, the former head of retail banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., will succeed Joseph Saunders as CEO of the world’s largest payments company.

DALLAS – John McCormack, an eyewitness to the attack on Pearl Harbor and a founding member of Texans CU, died last Friday at 95 of natural causes at his home here.

ATLANTA -- Delta Community CU has purchased WhereScape RED to develop an enterprise data warehouse running the Teradata database on a Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance.

OMAHA, Neb. – Metro Health Services FCU has signed with First Data for both debit and credit card processing services.

LOS ANGELES – Farmers Insurance Group FCU has begun using Portfolio 360 Inc.’s Mosaic Loan Intelligence Platform that enables credit unions to manage loan portfolio data from a single centralized system.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Truliant FCU has implement Caringo’s CAStor object storage software for the long-term storage of business-critical files including call center audio, video, check images, ATM receipts and email archives.

ALTOONA, Penn. – Altoona Regional Health System FCU has hired national design form Momentum to build a new headquarters for the $26 million credit union.

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Columbia CU has submitted a request to the city to build a second office building at its main operation center.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Fast-growing Scott CU officially opened its new 51,000-square-foot offices yesterday, more than tripling the size of its old headquarters in nearby Collinsville.

SEATTLE – Members of Prevail CU yesterday approved the combination of their credit union into Lakewood-based Harborstone CU, creating a $1 billion credit union serving 69,000 members at 17 branches across the state.

PLANO, Texas – The NCUA Board in closed meeting last week approved the acquisition by Catalyst Corporate FCU of Arizona’s troubled FirstCorp CU in a so-called purchase and assumption deal, continuing the revival of Catalyst, the remnants of failed Southwest Corporate FCU.