ALISON VIEJO, Calif. – Patriots FCU has contracted with EPL to convert to the CUSO’s i-POWER Technology suite.

HOUSTON -- People’s Trust FCU has selected CO-OP Financial Services for network and payment processing services, including access to CO-OP Network and in-house credit card transaction processing.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – St. Mary’s CU was cleared Tuesday to build a new branch at the old Friendly’s Ice Cream location in Westborough.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – C.A.H.P. CU has gone live with Integrated Media Management’s Document Exchange for Web contracting and electronic signature services.

MANSFIELD, Texas – Texas Trust CU donated $110,000 to local high schools from interchange revenues the credit union earned on its Spirit Debit Reward card.

TINTON FALLS, N.J. -- With two weeks still left in United Teletech Financial FCU’ Million Dollar Community Challenge, the $1 million dollar goal has been reached.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Police are investigating an attempted robbery at a Central Illinois CU branch yesterday afternoon that was foiled by locked doors.

WASHINGTON – Two credit union executives were named yesterday to the 25-member Consumer Advisory Board for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will provide advice to the new agencyon a consumer financial issues and emerging market trends.

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling, one of the top candidates to assume control of the House Financial Services Committee next year, sharply criticized the Dodd-Frank Act, saying it had severely damaged financial institutions.

DENVER -- What started as a standard speech by NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz broke into a sharp verbal exchange with State Employees’ CU CEO Jim Blaine at the National Association of State CU Supervisors Conference this afternoon over the controversy surrounding SECU’s public disclosure of its CAMEL rating last year.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said it has approved an additional 550 credit unions over the past month for low-income status under an initiative aimed at expanding access to capital in drought-stricken states, making those credit unions exempt from the congressional cap on member business loans.

DUBLIN, Ohio – Private deposit insurer American Share Insurance announced another special premium today, its fourth in a row, this one of nine basis points.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU announced this morning it has returned its investment services program to CUSO Financial Services, L.P., after a year-and-a-half hiatus.

FRANKENMUTH, Mich. — Neighborhood Mortgage Solutions announced the hiring of Greg Wischmeyer as the CUSO’s new CEO.

WAUSAU, Wis. -- A recidivist bank robber will spend the next 15 years behind bars after his fourth robbery conviction in 34 years, an attempted hold-up at Tower CU, now known as Connexus CU.

DANVILE, Penn. – Service 1st FCU has signed with Geezeo to implement the company’s white label personal financial management and engagement banking solution.

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- The vacant Ponderosa Steakhouse property soon will be home to a branch for Hudson Heritage FCU.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Insight CU has rolled out remote deposit capture by Cachet Financial Services and FI-MOBILE.

PALO ALTO, Calif.—The World Council of Credit Unions is embarking on a partnership with Boom that aims to expand financial access for un-banked and under-banked consumers around the world. The project attempts to make it easier to transfer funds internationally, in particular for those in cash-only economies.

OGDEN Utah -- America First CU has teamed up with The Sweet Tooth Fairy Bake Shops to create a signature treat for "Cupcake Friday" events.