SAN ANTONIO – Security Service FCU has signed with Mortgage Cadence to replace its document and loan origination solutions with Mortgage Cadence Orchestrator and Finale Document Services.

CHANDLER, Ariz. – A man who allegedly robbed a branch of San Tan CU Monday morning was captured a short while later when police stopped the getaway car and found him hiding on top of the stolen loot.

MINNEAPOLIS – FICO was awarded eight new patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including one for a new system of predicting, detecting and managing financial transaction device fraud using mass compromise analytics that could determine which cards need to be reissued after a data breach.

WASHINGTON – Credit union executives and directors were broadly dubious of an NCUA initiative Chairman Debbie Matz says is de-regulatory in its aims.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — CO-OP Financial Services and Financial Service Centers Cooperative have entered into an agreement to combine operations and unify the two dominant credit union shared branch networks.

An item in the Sept. 19 Daily Briefing initially reported that Montana Corporate and Missouri Corporate are merging; it should have read that Montana Corporate and Kansas Corporate have announced plans to merge.

WAYNESBORO, Va. – DuPont Community CU said Dr. Robert L. Tichenor, the last surviving founder and longtime director of the credit union, passed away at 93.

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU said its SECU Foundation has contributed an additional $125,000 to the Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to support the UNC-TV series “Exploring North Carolina.”

PORTLAND, Ore. – United Advantage NW FCU said it signed with eDOC Innovations to implement the company’s CheckLogic Branch Capture solution with forward collection direct to the Federal Reserve.

DEER PARK, Texas – Shell FCU has signed a full-service, single-sourced comprehensive electronic processing contract with Vantiv.

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Dupaco Community CU has signed with FI-MOBILE to implement the company’s UniFI mobile app solution.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – ORNL FCU has signed with Fynanz to build a customized private student loan program using the company’s cuStudentLoans platform.

WHEELING, W.Va. – A former teller of defunct N&W Poca Division FCU on Monday was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for her role in a family fraud that drained as much as $5 million from the tiny credit union.

MADISON, Wis. – The Filene Research Institute said the winner of its Idea Idol new innovations contest is HomeTrak, a device that follows the cost of owning a home in a unique way, helping homeowners plan for the maintenance and replacement costs of major appliances, home upkeep and other expenses.

NEW YORK – Five members of the National Federation of Community Development CUs will launch a new payday loan program that is easy to qualify for and requires savings for every borrowed dollar.

WASHINGTON – NCUA Board Member Gigi Hyland on Monday said credit unions should be part of the ongoing debate on expanding jobs in America.

WASHINGTON – Just when they thought it was safe to wade back in to the water, credit unions are due to fork over their 25 basis points – $2 billion – corporate credit union assessment to NCUA over the next few days.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fidelity National Information Services on Monday said it was the cause of Friday’s shutdown of payments at CO-OP Financial Services and numerous bank systems across the country.

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – NCUA announced this afternoon it hired Darin Woinarowicz, the chief financial officer at Kern Schools FCU, as permanent CEO at Arrowhead Central CU, the one-time $1 billion credit union that has been under NCUA conservatorship since June 2010.

WASHINGTON — NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz proposed several regulatory measures this morning, including new rules on loan participations that would require originators to retain some of the loans they participate out.