SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco FCU has chosen Geezeo to provide it with the company’s personal financial management and web-based marketing platform.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – Community Choice CU on Thursday said its signed with Jack Henry & Associates to implement iPay Technologies’ Biz 2.0 small business online bill pay platform.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates dipped even lower from record depths this week, as the spring home-buying season beckons.

PHOENIX – CUNA Mutual Life Insurance Co. has asked a federal court for permission to deposit a $300,000 death benefit it owes with the clerk of the court while authorities determine whether the insured credit union member was murdered by his wife, which would make her ineligible to claim the payout.

PHOENIX – A federal court yesterday denied a Yuma real estate developer’s $34 million breach of contract suit against NCUA and rejected his bid to block the credit union agency from selling off his projects, which were financed by the scandal-plagued AEA FCU.

LAKE MARY, Fla. – CFE FCU will celebrate its 75th birthday—known as the diamond anniversary—by giving away half carat diamonds in a social media Dash for Diamonds Sweepstakes.

OREM, Utah – A 16-year-old male allegedly took his mother’s car and held up branches of America First CU and Central Bank within 20 minutes last month.

LYNCHBURG, Va. – A former Blue Ridge FCU branch manager on Tuesday pleaded guilty to stealing $110,977 from the credit union and to falsifying records to help out her family’s business.

HOUSTON – FirstMark CU is partnering with North East Independent School District to open a credit union branch inside Ronald Reagan High School.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – KeyPoint CU held an unveiling ceremony and dedication to name its headquarters after CEO Timothy Kramer, who is retiring after a 26-year tenure with the $750-million credit union.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Meriwest CU is one of 24 members of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco that will administer $32.9 million in the FHLB’s affordable housing grants.

AUSTIN, Texas – Greater Texas FCU has signed with Catalyst Corporate FCU and Malauzai Software for mobile deposit capture services.

SALT LAKE CITY – The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved America First CU, Cyprus FCU, Goldenwest CU, Mountain America CU, USU Charter FCU and Utah First FCU as Export Express lenders.

MAUI, Hawaii – A former teller at Kulia Ohana FCU on Wednesday was sentenced to 44 months behind bars for stealing $163,744 from member accounts between 2008 and 2009.

WASHINGTON – Fannie Mae said it is ending the practice of credit unions and banks forcing expensive homeowners insurance on borrowers and it will seek to oversee such policies itself.

ODESSA, Texas – An Arizona man will receive cash in exchange for settling civil charges First Basin CU over absence of a fee disclosure outside its ATM, the 12th credit union or bank agreeing to settle with the so-called ATM vigilante.

CLEVELAND – The ex-wife of a purported Balkans crime figure was sentenced yesterday to a day in jail and to pay $3.3 million in restitution believed deposited in Macedonian bank accounts for her role in the 2010 collapse of St. Paul Croatian FCU, the biggest credit union fraud ever.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Fifteen-term incumbent Marcy Kaptur, one of the most reliable credit union votes in Congress, survived a challenge in yesterday’s primary against two-time presidential candidate Dennis Kucinith that was forced by the state’s congressional redistricting and will now face Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, who became known as "Joe the Plumber" during the 2008 presidential campaign -- in November’s general election.

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, a Democrat known for his work on human rights and a longtime supporter of credit unions, died Tuesday at age 77.

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – Community Financial CU is offering the community a chance to give a collective thumbs up and $25,000 by voting on which charities should receive a donation from the credit union.