NCUA brazenly handed out a MBL gift to all of us in the form of 1,500 credit unions that have been newly designated as "low income."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fidelity National Information Systems announced the introduction this morning of global real-time payments network for domestic and international money movement for both retail and commercial trade.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –A 22-year-old Tuscaloosa man was sentenced last week to 41 years in prison for his role in armed robberies at three two local credit unions in 2011, and for escape from custody in December 2011.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Community First CU of Florida announced the launch of mobile deposits through its mobile banking platform.

HAMPTON, Va. – A man convicted jailed in early September for robbing a Navy FCU branch was caught Thursday night, three days after he escaped prison here.

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Dubuque Teachers CU has rolled out Dwolla, the online, mobile, social and location-based payments application.

KINSTON, N.C. -- Self Help CU’s recycled branch here—a former gas station- is green in more ways than one.

EL PASO, Texas – NCUA liquidated El Paso’s FCU Friday night and assigned the remnants of the one-time $6 million credit union to $450 million El Paso Area Teachers FCU.

TULSA, Okla. -- A Dallas-area man was charged in federal court here last week with using another person's Social Security number to finance the acquisition of sport utility vehicles and motorhomes from two Tulsa credit unions.

WASHINGTON – Retail groups that beat the banks in last year’s battle over debit fees will argue in federal court tomorrow that the Federal Reserve didn’t go far enough last year when it set the caps required by the Durbin Amendment and that the allowed fees collected by credit unions and banks on debit transactions should be billions of dollars lower still.

FORTH WORTH, Texas – With the expectation of more such actions, a blind woman filed suit yesterday in federal court against Forth Worth Community CU, alleging the credit union’s ATM she uses does not comply with the recently enacted visually impaired provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

MADISON, Wis. – The Credit Union Executives Society announced Bert J. Hash, Jr., president and CEO of MECU of Baltimore, is the 2012 CUES Outstanding Chief Executive.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A local woman yesterday admitted she used forged transaction slips and a forged check to take money from her father’s Empower FCU account.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Printing Industries CU said has signed with CU*NorthWest to implement the CUSO’s core processing system.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University FCU rolled out iPhone and Android apps for its mobile banking platform this week.

MIDLAND, Mich. – Dow Chemical Employees’ CU marked its 75th anniversary with a weeklong Diamond Anniversary celebration that included food and entertainment, a loan sale, and a drawing for a seven-day, six-night vacation to Diamond Head, Hawaii.

RAPID CITY, S.C. – Highmark FCU has been approved to offer mortgages through the Homes for Heroes program.

BENSENVILLE, Ill. – A former mortgage officer at Bensenville Community CU admitted stealing nearly $200,000 from the credit union.

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve’s latest round of stimulus, announced last week, helped push down mortgage rates again to new lows this week, according to Freddie Mac.

PHILADELPHIA – In another new flurry of suits, a blind Delaware man sued American Heritage FCU in federal court yesterday, claiming the Philadelphia credit union is in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act because its ATMs are not all fully accessible for the visually impaired.