GRANITE CITY, Ill. – GSC FCU said it is converting to a state charter that will enable it to serve to eight other surrounding Illinois counties outside St. Louis.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri CU has signed with Geezeo to implement the company’s white label personal financial management tool and management banking platform.

NEW YORK -- Christ the Rock International, a 17-year-old, 400-member church in Brooklyn, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday, the latest church borrower of California’s Evangelical Christian CU to file for bankruptcy.

LAKELAND, Fla. – Fast-growing MidFlorida CU will pick up two new branches and $46 million in assets with a merger of Bay Pines FCU, which serves the Bay Pines Veterans Administration complex.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Star One CU, which serves a high-tech field of membership throughout California’s Silicon Valley, will announce this morning the roll-out of its new mobile banking from Tyfone.

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Eight months of saving and trimming household expenses paid off for a Miami Township couple who won $10,000 and $1,500 of closing costs for a new home in Wright-Patt CU’s Savings Race 4.

WASHINGTON – The FDIC seized three more banks on Friday, one each in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, making a total of 31 failures for the year.

WASHINGTON – Credit unions and banks ran into new opposition by consumer groups who oppose a bill that would eliminate the requirement that fees charged non-customers at the ATM are posted both on the side of the machines, as well as on-screen.

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The HealthyYou! Wellness Program has saved more than $250,000 in premiums for participating credit unions, awarded $1,500 in wellness program cash incentives, and returned $228,000 in a premium rebate.

WHEELING, W.V. – Two local credit unions agreed this week to settle separate suits on ATM disclosures brought by a Michigan retiree who has gone around the country suing credit unions and banks over their failure to post fee disclosures on the outside of their ATMs.

Banks have begun increasing overdraft fees again, according to a new study from the Consumer Federation of America.

WATERLOO, Iowa- -- Veridian CU, one of the financial backers of Dwolla, announced this morning it has introduced the start-up payments company’s FiSync money transfers for its members.

PITTSBURGH – Fred Steinkirchner, a retired Pittsburgh fire chief who is about to celebrate his 100th birthday, was recently recognized for his 50 years of volunteer service at Pittsburgh Firefighter’s FCU.

TAMPA, Fla. – Suncoast Schools FCU has contributed $95,000 to the Hillsborough Education Foundation as part of $236,000 in private money raised to get the first class of Urban Teaching Academy students through college.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – Heritage Trust FCU has committed $100,000 to the Lowcountry Housing Trust to help provide affordable housing funds.

WASHINGTON – Larry Blanchard, who has spent more than 35 years as a leader in the credit union movement, was honored Wednesday night with the Consumer Federation of America’s prestigious Esther Peterson Consumer Award for lifetime achievement.