SAN ANTONIO – Credit union giant Security Service FCU has launched a new ad campaign on TV, radio and the Web that playfully promotes a shortening of the $6.5-billion credit union’s name.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU has rolled out Guided Selling, a new platform for online merchandising of financial products by Leadfusion, which the former Boeing Employees CU helped develop.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA reported this afternoon its $2 billion third quarter assessment for the corporate credit union resolution erased almost half of the industry’s net income for the period, resulting in third-quarter earnings of $1 billion for the industry’s 7,179 federally insured credit unions, down from $1.9 billion in the second quarter.

NEW YORK – United Nations FCU said this morning it has introduced a credit card-linked term life insurance that uniquely covers war, terrorism and political violence for United Nations employees serving in all of the world’s troubled spots.

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Wright-Patt CU announced this morning it is paying members a $5 million special patronage dividend.

JANUARY

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Greylock FCU yesterday pledged $100,000 to Girls Incorporated of the Berkshires in support of the organization’s Go Girl endowment campaign to help girls become smart, strong and bold.

MILWAUKIE, Ore. – Advantis CU is providing $51,500 in community grants to eight local non-profits as part of its GROW: The Advantis Community Fund.

VISTA, Calif. – Bluepoint Solutions said it is partnering with PCSi, a South Carolina CUSO, to host Bluepoint's item processing solution, ImagePoint Hub, to aggregate checks, create cash letters and transmit them for settlement to any endpoint.

DUBUQUE, Iowa – DuTrac Community CU will obtain a new branch in Dyersville and $12 million in assets with the merger of RACOM Community CU, creating a combined credit union of $517 million.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. – Bethpage FCU opened its 25th branch Monday in the community of Patchogue Village as part of an expansion in Suffolk County to better serve minorities, including Latino Long Islanders.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. – Navigant CU is holding a Facebook iPad Giveaway, which will award a free iPad to one lucky Facebook fan each week from Nov. 19 to Dec. 19.

LIVERMORE, Calif. – Operating Engineers FCU on Wednesday said it signed with Integrated Media Management to implement the company’s browser-based FormSpeed solution to collect information and route forms through the proper channel.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The former vice president of operations of Star USA FCU on Wednesday was sentenced to two years behind bars after pleading guilty to using false information to obtain $280,000 in home equity lines from her credit union.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA last night liquidated BCT FCU, a one-time $50-million credit union it took under conservatorship in October, and sold the remnants of the latest credit union failure to Visions FCU in nearby Endicott, N.Y.

NEW BERLIN, Wis. – Landmark CU is in the process of merging four more credit unions, leapfrogging Summit CU as Wisconsin’s biggest credit union.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Members of Volunteer Corporate CU approved the combination with West Virginia Corporate FCU to create a $1.5 billion corporate, one of six pending corporate marriages.

WAYNE, N.J. – State regulators have approved a request from First Jersey CU to add 1.5 million residents in four adjourning counties to its field of membership, giving the $125 million credit union a field of membership spanning more than two million residents, the biggest among New Jersey’s state charters and the first FOM approval by state regulators in five years.

PHILADELPHIA – American Heritage FCU’s Kids-N-Hope Foundation completed its fundraising year by presenting a check for $80,000 to the Children’s Seashore House of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. – Teachers FCU, Long Island’s biggest credit union, opened a new branch in Hauppauge on Monday, the $4.1-billion credit union’s 23rd service facility.