PALO ALTO, Calif. – Stanford FCU, the first financial institution in the country to offer Internet banking, has signed with Open Solutions to convert to the company’s DNA core processing system with its new DNAweb Internet banking solution.

BEL AIR, Md. – Members of Har-CO FCU voted to approve the conversion of the $200 million credit union to a mutual savings bank, the first credit union conversion in more than two years.

CHICAGO – Harland Financial Solutions and its Harland Clarke affiliate announced this morning during the annual BAI Retail Delivery Conference the launch of their own person-to-person payment network for credit unions and banks.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. – muCUsurvey.com announced a strategic alliance with Market Rates Insight to provide market intelligence to help the credit unions and banks increase customer satisfaction and build deposits.

NEW HAVEN, In. – Two men who forced an employee of Three Rivers FCU to open a vault Friday morning got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.

KENNEWICK, Wash. – Tri-Cities FCU said it has signed with FLEX to implement the company’s core processing solution.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – 1st Valley CU has been approved to expand its field of membership to cover all 2.1 million residents of San Bernardino County.

SAGINAW, Mich. – Catholic FCU said Pat Backus is retiring in December, after 27 years as its Bay City branch manager.

LIVONIA, Mich. – Co-op Services CU, which was founded in Dearborn more than 57 years ago, joined the city of Deaborn’s Adopt-A-Watt, an energy- and money-saving program for two public parking structures that are located only a few blocks from the credit union’s branch in west Dearborn.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU is offering a 3% APY on its “EasyStart” 12-month CD.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – First South Financial CU said it has acquired Dyersburg CU, a $13 million credit union with one branch in nearby Dyersburg.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU announced yesterday its PenFed Realty has acquired Prudential Carruthers Realtors, a leading real estate broker in the Washington metro area with more than 800 brokers.

CLEVELAND – NCUA has begun filing what is expected to be a series of civil suits seeking repayment from members engaged in the massive fraud at St. Paul Croatian FCU, the one-time $240 million credit union that went under last year.

LAS VEGAS-Looking to grow mortgage lending? Target a largely untapped market: young, female buyers.

ANCHORAGE-Alaska USA FCU had staffed up last week to handle as much as $280 million of new member funds passing through as part of the annual dividend from Alaska's Permanent Fund.

ONTARIO, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif.-Technology CU has applied to NCUA to convert to a mutual savings bank, which, at $1.5 billion, would be the biggest ever credit union conversion to bank.

MADISON, Wis.-The data is increasingly making it likely that 2011 will be a year of negative loan growth.

Delinquencies Up In Q2,

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.-Industry analysts who spoke with Credit Union Journal had this advice for CUs to grow share.

RALEIGH, N.C.-As the latest wave of bank debit and checking fees were making news, Coastal FCU was getting a lot of media attention for paying members higher checking interest for using their debit card more.