LAUREL, Md. – Tower FCU has contracted with CO-OP Financial Services to drive its ATM terminals.

LOWELL, Mass. – Jeanne D’Arc CU is launching its second MoneyStrong For Life Challenge, a savings contest which will see four families competing for a $7,500 grand prize.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Dick Durbin, who led the effort to cap debit interchange fees last year, responded to the banking and credit union lobbies’ letters to Congress last week, saying the cap has resulted in a victory for consumers.

GROTON, Conn. – Ledge Light FCU, the credit union for Pfizer pharmaceuticals, is changing its name to Scient and branching out to become a national brand among life science workers.

NORWALK, Conn. – NAFCU on Tuesday called on the Financial Accounting Standards Board to exempt credit unions from proposed new disclosures on interest rate and liquidity risk.

WICHITA, Kan. – NCUA filed another suit against a Wall Street bank this afternoon, this one naming Barclays, alleging the sale of faulty mortgage-backed securities by Barclays to U.S. Central FCU and WesCorp FCU contributed to the collapse of the two corporate credit union giants.

NEW BERLIN, Wis. –In the latest deal of its kind, Landmark CU has agreed to acquire Hartford (Wis.) Savings Bank, a troubled $190 million institution.

NEW YORK – The National Restaurant Association said this morning it is joining the growing opposition to the proposed $7.2 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and MasterCard over fees for credit card transactions, another major setback to the endangered deal.

BREA, Calif. – Credit Union of Southern California has completed its third merger in just 63 days, an unprecedented pace in this era of merger-mania.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Nearly 18,000 votes were cast by members of $1.6-billion Technology CU in response to an attempt by management and the board to convert the credit union to a mutual savings bank.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Police officers say they were able to stop a robbery at First Priority FCU before it happened.

LANCASTER, Penn. – LANCO FCU named Stacey Remick, its vice president of member services, as president and CEO of the $70-million credit union.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Gesa CU donated $10,000 to Habitat for Humanity Tri-Cities for its annual Harvest for Hope fundraiser breakfast.

MILWAUKEE – Northwestern Mutual CU has signed with Geezeo to implement the company’s white label personal financial management and engagement banking solution.

GREENWICH, Conn. – A woman and her husband last week were charged with siphoning more than $62,000 from a Greenwich Municipal Employees FCU account belonging to a teenage family member.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A member of FLAG CU has filed suit in federal court claiming CUMIS Insurance, a unit of CUNA Mutual Group, is violating Florida law in its sale of guaranteed asset protection, or GAP, contracts.

DURHAM, N.C. – A drive to register Latino voters kicked off yesterday at all four Latino CU branches in North Carolina.

AUSTIN, Texas – A+ FCU, which has launched a variety of school-related savings contests, has teamed with Austin Community College’s Student Life office for what the credit union says is the first community college savings challenge.

BECU staff are tackling a task critical to the future of the credit union-turning all the new members coming over from banks into profitable relationships.

Kenneth Palmer, owner of Black Hills Federal Credit Union, believes thinking like an entrepreneur is key to success.