WASHINGTON – A bill introduced in Congress this afternoon would go a long way to curing the growing number of suits over ATM disclosures by eliminating the requirement that ATMs disclose fees on the outside of the machine, as well as on-screen.

DENVER – State regulators on Friday approved applications from $2 billion Bellco CU and $225 million Denver Community CU to serve almost 450,000 residents in Adams County, making at least five of the state’s biggest credit unions authorized to serve the fast-growing county, which includes the Denver bedroom communities of Arvada and Aurora and part of the city of Denver.

BALTIMORE – Horsetail Technologies and Credit Union Journal have partnered to make an extraordinary offer that will result in one credit union receiving a $100,000 Extreme Network Makeover.

ALLENTOWN, Penn. – Two employees at Lehigh Valley Hospital were charged with stealing at least $9,000 from a Peoples First FCU ATM and tampered with the ATM to make it appear they had taken nothing.

FLAT ROCK, Mich. – Advantage One FCU has selected Geezeo to provide it with the company’s white label personal financial management solution.

WASHINGTON – Labor FCU has selected NeighborBench, a cloud based platform that connects credit unions with a team of compliance experts, to help simplify compliance.

POTTSTOWN, Penn. – Tri County Area FCU has signed with INVEST Financial Corp. to provide its members brokerage and investment services.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Consumers CU is introducing a program offering home buyer assistance grants of up to $7,500 for qualifying first-time home buyers.

RYE, N.Y. – USAlliance FCU has signed with Credit Union Student Choice to provide the CUSO’s white label private student loan program to its members.

MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin CU opened its fourth Milwaukee area branch in a newly constructed building in the Town of Brookfield.

GROTON, Conn. – Charter Oak FCU, the one-time credit union for Electric Boat submarine builders, unveiled plans for a new 60,000-square-foot, $16-million office project in nearby Waterford.

WICHITA, Kan. – Credit unions again appear to have largely dodged damage from severe weather, in this case the latest tornadoes that ravaged wide swaths of the Midwest over the weekend.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. – Bethpage FCU, which has a strong relationship with Long Island’s gay population, has introduced a new affinity program which will make a donation to the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Center when its supporters open new checking and savings accounts at the credit union.

DETROIT – Three credit union victims in a $13 million investment fraud have agreed to disgorge more than $600,000 to a trustee overseeing the case for disbursement to victims of the scheme.

CLEVELAND – A local credit union executive this morning decried the “flood” of new regulations being navigated by his and other credit unions and told lawmakers during a congressional hearing here this morning that the industry is lobbying NCUA for a temporary halt to new rules and regulations.

There will be plenty of quality applicants lining up to replace the coming wave of retirees at the CEO level in credit unions.

In-depth personality testing can help credit unions identify the right leadership traits in their CEO candidates according to Charles Shanley, VP/executive search group director at John M. Floyd & Associates.

When you hire more than 2,000 employees per year, like the Navy Federal Credit Union, you learn a thing or two about recruitment and how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The CEO search process and the candidates for open positions have changed as a result of the recession, according to Mike Juratovac, CEO at O'Rourke and Associates.

After weathering a rough patch when the recession hit Michigan, Community Financial Members Federal Credit Union has rebounded and last year saw loan growth of better than 5% and checking account growth of nearly 8%.