VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU is opening a new branch at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., this morning to serve the Army’s 12,700 active duty personnel, civilian employees and their families.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Kinecta FCU is opening of a new mortgage center in Newbury Park, Calif., to serve members in San Fernando Valley, Ventura County and Santa Barbara County residents.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Directors of Iowa Corporate CU are scheduled to meet over the next two weeks to prepare a voluntary plan of liquidation for the $100-million corporate.

COLUMBUS, Ga. – TIC FCU is one of the first credit unions to implement Deluxe Corp’s SwitchAgent, a new solution the company said allows consumers to easily switch from one financial institution to another.

WALL STREET – Thousands of protestors continued to rail against big banks and tout credit unions and community lenders as the series of protests known as “Occupy Wall Street” spread across the country.

FT. MYERS, Fla. – A federal judge agreed yesterday to NCUA’s request to strike a jury trial in a suit where the credit union regulator is seeking to foreclose on some two dozen borrowers from one of three credit unions caught in an ill-fated Florida real estate speculation.

PHOENIX – Arizona Central CU employees spent their day off on Columbus Day preparing nearly 40,000 meals for homeless families served by St. Mary’s Food Bank here.

CHARLESTON, S.C. – A former employee at South Charleston Employees FCU was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly embezzling more than $100,000 from the credit union.

BILOXI, Miss. – Coastal CU, formerly Biloxi Municipal CU, has joined Credit Union 24, the nation’s largest fee-free ATM and point-of-sale network.

ATLANTA – Delta Community CU is holding its second annual Switch Day Oct. 21 to overcome many bank customers’ biggest objection.

ST. JOHNS, Mich. – Clinton County FCU was approved by NCUA to convert to a community charter serving 200,000 residents in Clinton, Gratiot or Shiawassee counties.

LATHRUP VILLAGE, Mich. – Michigan First CU has signed with TrueCar to provide members with the company’s real-time new (TrueCar.com) and used (ClearBook.com) vehicle transaction data.

WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates rose from all-time lows this week after a stronger-than-expected jobs report, according to Freddie Mac.

JANESVILLE, Wis. – First Community CU in Beloit has acquired a branch that had housed Evergreen State Bank, which was shut down by regulators in January.

WASHINGTON – The recent announcement by Bank of America that it will implement a $5 monthly fee to use its debit cards has prompted a renewed effort in Congress to repeal the Durbin Amendment, which sets caps on debit fees for large banks such as BofA.

PHILADELPHIA – A local mortgage broker on Thursday was charged in a federal indictment with masterminding a $4-million mortgage fraud scheme he allegedly ran through Police & Fire FCU.

RALEIGH, N.C. – As credit unions seek to grab a bigger share of deposits, State Employees’ CU has become the first credit union to publicly disclose its confidential financial condition as determined by regulators–its CAMEL code.

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Northwest Community CU announced the hiring of John Iglesias, president of Seattle’s Salal CU, as president of the $700-million credit union.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – CommonWealth One FCU has located an ATM in the main lobby of the brand new Alexandria Police Headquarters.

MOBILE, Ala. – Azalea City CU has chosen to convert its ATM, debit and credit card processing provider to Jack Henry & Associates’ JHA Payment Processing Solutions.