SAN DIGEO – North Island CU signed with CRIF Lending Solutions to implement the company’s CRIF ACTion origination system for consumer, business and merchant lending, and account opening.

SILVERDALE, Wash. -- Navy FCU is moving its flagship branch here and is leaving its leased quarters for a credit union-owned 7,600-square-foot building.

PORTLAND, Ore. – A Man who posed on Facebook with cash overflowing his pockets and his friend were charged with identity theft after the two pretended the friend’s debit card was stolen and they charged up tens of thousands of dollars on his Advantis CU account.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – A family who recently moved from Los Angeles so their infant son could grow up in rural Sonoma County won $10,000 last week in Redwood CU’s inaugural Amazing Savers contest.

GLENDORA, Calif. – Shoppers in this Los Angeles suburb will be able to experience a Christmas snow and join a snowball fight in two weeks during America’s Christian CU’s annual Snow Day.

SAN DIEGO-Recognizing that switching electronic payments is a painful manual process, California Coast CU provides a "concierge" service to new members, said Donna Johnson, senior marketing specialist at the $1.6-billion CU here.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Impact analysis is "a daunting task," said William Hord, VP-enterprise risk management (ERM) at Finance Center FCU here.

RENO, Nev.-Dennis Flannigan, president and CEO of $103-million Great Basin CU in Reno, Nev., said on normal Saturday it might get five or six new accounts, but on Nov. 5 it had 18 new accounts plus six current members added checking accounts.

SAN DIEGO-San Diego County Credit Union combined Bank Transfer Day with a "Shred Your Big Bank Debit Card" promotion.

VENTURA, Calif.-The $542-million Ventura County CU opened 315 new accounts on Bank Transfer Day. The credit union is usually closed on Saturdays, but increased its hours in response to consumer demand.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The Golden 1 Credit Union is reporting "tremendous" growth in membership and new checking accounts since the beginning of October following the BofA debit fee announcement. Scott Ingram, SVP of marketing for the $7.4-billion CU, said, "We had a great Bank Transfer Day."

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.-The $3.3-billion Kinecta FCU saw a lot of activity on Bank Transfer Day, much of it from one determined member.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.-Henry Kertman, a spokesman for the California and Nevada CU Leagues, noted CUNA estimated California has had the largest number of new members for any state since Sept. 29: 90,000 and $624 million in new deposits. He said the leagues estimate credit unions have been seeing 2.5 times the average number of new member sign-ups per week.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – In the biggest gain associated with Bank Transfer Day, a local church, angry over the mortgage foreclosure practices at Bank of America, agreed to withdraw $3 million in funds from the banking giant and deposit them with a local community development credit union, Self-Help FCU.

MADISON, Wis. – Astronaut Janet Kavandi helped kick-off a pilot loan program with which five credit unions will provide financial incentives to subprime auto borrowers to encourage them to make timely payments and pay off their loans sooner.

CHARLOTTSEVILLE, Va. – SNL Financial announced yesterday it has acquired Datatrac’s popular Interest Rate Products, which track rates for savings and loans for more than 8,000 financial institutions, including 1,000 credit unions.

GLASTONBURY, Conn. – Open Solutions Inc. announced a deal yesterday that will give its credit union clients access to the FinApp system from Yodlee.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Columbia CU has contributed $60,000 to the new Washington State University Vancouver Engineering and Computer Science.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- CarePoint FCU has signed with TRC Interactive to implement the company’s online instruction through CreditUnionTrainingOnline for its credit union-wide training needs.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas -- Texas Dow Employees CU said this week it created a holding company to manage its four subsidiary CUSOs.