AUSTIN, Texas – Texans CU, a credit union giant being run by NCUA, is scheduled to foreclose next week on the Lakeway Resort and Spa, a 174-room luxury hotel, the latest troubled venture financed by the credit union.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – APCO Employees CU has chosen TRC Interactive to provide its employees with Web-based training with its CreditUnionTrainingOnline.

LEHIGH VALLEY, Penn. – First Commonwealth FCU is now processing on a hosted version of Jack Henry & Associates’ Symitar core system via its OutLink Data Center offering.

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Medical Area FCU, a troubled, $75-million credit union, is proposing to merge into RTN FCU, a $720-million credit union based in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham.

LA CROSSE, Wis. – Altra FCU announced it will expand into the Rochester, Minn., market with a new branch.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A former corrections officer charged with 2010 killings of two west Tennessee postal workers pleaded not guilty Wednesday to armed robberies at Southeast Financial FCU and MidSouth Bank weeks after the fatal shootings.

PORTLAND, Ore. – City officials here said they have enacted the initial provisions of a new Responsible Banking Resolution and made deposits of $250,000 in each of 10 Oregon credit unions and banks.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said this afternoon it cancelled tomorrow’s Board meeting where it was scheduled to vote on a new CUSO rule, the third open Board meeting cancelled by the agency in the first six months of the year.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Langley FCU announced this morning it hired Thomas Ryan, chief operating officer at Digital Employees FCU, New England’s largest credit union, as CEO of the $1.7 billion credit union.

RIVERWOODS, Ill. – Discover Financial Services, the third biggest credit card brand, said net income for its second quarter ended May 31 declined 10% to $537 million as the parent of PULSE EFT network set aside more reserves and expressed growing concern about Visa’s pricing actions.

VINELAND, N.J. – Bridgeton Onize FCU has signed with Share One to implement the company’s NewSolutions core processing system.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. – HealthCare Associates CU has signed with Vertifi Software to offer its remote deposit capture service, called DeposZip.

DOWNEY, Calif. – Financial Partners CU has launched its own reloadable debit card program for MasterCard.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- NASA FCU is offering its members private student loans through Credit Union Student Choice.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Warren FCU has implemented Financial Management Solutions Inc.’s Teller Management System.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Coastal FCU has joined the STAR ATM Network, signing a multi-year agreement under which STAR will provide PIN-secured debit point-of-sale and ATM access to its cardholders.

MOLINE, Ill. – DHCU Community has contracted with Datamyx to use its “In the Market” data mining program.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A man and woman were charged yesterday with siphoning $17,000 from State Department FCU through a phony ATM deposit scheme.

TUKWILA, Wash. – Prime Alliance Solutions, the mortgage CUSO created by BECU which provides services to 1,900 credit unions, has been acquired by Mortgage Cadence, LLC, a Denver provider of enterprise lending solutions, document services and compliance solutions.

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Western Union this afternoon announced the release of an enhancement to its Speedpay electronic bill payment service that allows billers to receive electronic bills through smartphones and mobile devices and consumers to pay their bills directly from their mobile devices with just one click.