WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – You’ve likely heard countless advertisements urging you to “Act Now!” With Credit Union Journal’s Day in the Life of Credit Unions project, it’s good advice.

GLASGOW, Scotland – For the first time ever at a World Council of Credit Unions event, the flag of Afghanistan stood with the flags of the other 54 nations whose members are represented by the group when WOCCU hosted its annual World CU Conference here.

TACOMA, Wash. – In its latest effort to enforce departing employees’ non-compete agreements, CUNA Mutual Group asked a federal court here to stop a former employee from using her CMG book of business at CUNA Mutual competitor Ameriprise.

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia CU is among a handful of companies that have signed with Comcast Cable to use dynamic ad insertion in On Demand programming, further leveraging the On Demand service as an advertising platform.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Lawyers for Corporate America CU and former executives and directors of U.S. Central FCU hammered out a settlement yesterday of a suit challenging the December 2008 conversion of $450 million of U.S. Central membership capital shares into Tier One capital that was wiped out within weeks as the one-time $52 billion corporate slid into insolvency.

NEW YORK– ACI Worldwide announced this morning it has offered to acquire S1 Corp., which could scotch a month-old merger of S1 and Fundtech.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU has selected ZixCorp E-Mail Encryption Services to maintain the security of sensitive information.

DEER PARK, Texas – Shell FCU said it is now offering private student loans through the CU Student Choice program.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Commonwealth CU has implemented Real Asset Management’s Series4000 suite of asset management systems.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Greylock FCU has agreed to acquire Steinerfilm Employees FCU, a $300,000 credit union in nearby Williamstown, Mass.

WASHINGTON – NASA FCU was approved by NCUA to add 120,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to its field of membership, one of the biggest select group additions in recent years.

HURON, S.D. – Dakotaland FCU, South Dakota’s second-largest credit union, will pick up two new branches with the mergers of Turtle Creek FCU and Interlakes FCU, NCUA reported yesterday.

NEW YORK – The National Federation of Community Development CUs has awarded $240,000 in grants to eights CDCUs to help them expand programs aimed at securing the financial health of elderly members and the disadvantaged aging in their communities.

PROVO, Utah – A silent with a light-hearted piano soundtrack starring two clay characters developed by a middle school freshman – one who makes financially savvy choices and one who spends without restraint – won the Utah Community CU BeMoneySmart film contest.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – You’ve likely heard countless advertisements urging you to “Act Now!” With Credit Union Journal’s Day in the Life of Credit Unions project, it’s good advice.

GLASGOW, Scotland – Brian Branch, who will take over as the World Council’s CEO on Aug. 3, urged credit unions as they look ahead to remember there are trade-offs as they seek scalability and efficiencies.

GLASGOW, Scotland – Pete Crear came to the World Council of Credit Unions unknown to many people around the world. He departed with a global standing ovation.

GLASGOW, Scotland – The Right Hon. Gordon Brown, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, firmly believes credit unions have a strong and influential role to play finance around the world, and with it an opportunity to be seized upon over the next decade.

VIENNA, Va. – The nation’s defense credit unions, most of which successfully avoided the financial meltdown of 2009-2010, are continuing to post strong financials for the first half of 2011 – many as if there never was a national economic crisis.

SAN ANTONIO-As the compliance burden on credit unions continues to grow, San Antonio CU has created the SACU Risk Advisory Services (RAS) department, which is charged with regulatory and legal monitoring, loss prevention, internal audit, operational quality control and government relations.As of July 1, 2011, the SACU Risk Management and CUFBL Compliance functions were integrated into the new department.