Today, our business model may still require our members to cooperate, but credit unions (and their boards and executives) do very little in the way or cooperating, especially when it comes to "educating" the public about credit union "best practices" in personal financial behavior.

I worry about the future of a nation that refuses to acknowledge the true causes of the crisis, justifying actions by filing lawsuits against other wrongdoers. In reality, every check of the system failed to restrain the excess and greed or to correct the delusional optimism.

NEW YORK--It may be Halloween for everyone else, but today kicks of efforts to commemorate the International Year of Cooperatives 2012, with events scheduled at the United Nations to launch the commemoration.

ATLANTA – S1 Corp. and ACI Worldwide said Friday the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has asked more additional information about ACI’s plans to acquire S1 and its affects on markets for cards processing.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Gila Group has introduced a new service offering focused on targeted dialing campaigns.

MOSS POINT, Miss. -- Singing River FCU collected almost 4,000 bras from the community and strung them across the Moss Point Bridge, all with the hope of giving breast cancer some eye catching attention.

FAIRVIEW PARK, Ohio – The city council last week approved a pre-construction, seven-year tax abatement for the United Telephone CU for the construction of new administrative offices at the site of the former Cleveland Motel.

MERIDIAN, Idaho – Capital Educators FCU was approved by NCUA to convert to a so-called TIP charter serving all education-related workers, teachers, and administrators through the state of Idaho.

KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Eastman CU has signed with EasCorp FCU’s Vertifi Software CUSO to implement the company’s DeposZip Mobile for mobile remote deposit capture for its members.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Fire Police City County FCU has acquired two former Sonic fast-food drive thru restaurants where it will build new branches.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Security Service was approved by NCUA to add more than 200,000 residents in underserved markets in Colorado to its field of membership, expanding its growing presence in Colorado.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – About 400 people gathered here last week for a preview grand opening ceremony at Mission Hospital’s new $59 million SECU Cancer Center, assisted by a $5 million grant from the State Employees’ CU Foundation.

FREMONT, Calif. – Alliance CU passed out 500 free $1 bills last Wednesday at the local BART station during the morning rush hour, as part of its campaign to highlight the credit union’s local support for businesses and the community.

MIAMI – A federal judge here last week order CUNA Mutual Group’s CUMIS Insurance Society unit to pay Dade County FCU $406,000 to fulfill a faithful performance bond claim for an employee who doctored more than 500 delinquent Visa credit card accounts to make it appear the accounts were current.

WICHITA, Kan. – JP Morgan Chase rebutted claims in an NCUA lawsuit it misled four failed corporate credit unions into buying $1.5 billion of risky mortgage-backed securities, and pointed the finger—as NCUA’s own internal reviews have—at the management of the failed corporate and NCUA’s own examiners.

TEMPE, Ariz.-TruWest Credit Union says members appreciate its old school approach and its paper switch kits, but it also is working on electronic forms and mobile access.

SAN DIEGO-Credit unions across the country last week were busy rolling out marketing messages to take advantage of Bank Transfer Day on Nov. 5.

ALEXANDIA, Va. – Five more billion-dollar-plus credit unions were approved to acquire smaller credit unions, NCUA reported this afternoon, continuing a trend where the big are increasingly gobbling up the small.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – CUAOk Services, the CU Association of Oklahoma's service corporation, is partnering with Cachet Financial Solutions to offer the company’s Select Mobile remote deposit capture solutions to Oklahoma credit unions.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Kemba CU has launched a program called the Fresh Start Checking Account to help people who either don’t have a bank checking account or have a troubled past.