HOUSTON – Cardtronics, the nation’s leading ATM operator, said yesterday it signed with Wegmans Food Market to place ATMs in 77 supermarkets in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland.

ONTARIO, Calif. – Financial Service Centers Cooperative said yesterday it is reducing fees on its MyCUAnywhere text banking transactions to 35 cents per transaction.

SAN FRANCISCO – Visa said yesterday it has invested in Square, a mobile payments start-up founded by the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey that turns phones and iPads into credit card readers.

WALL STREET – NCUA is expected this week to launch a new offering of bonds backed by the assets of five failed corporate credit unions, nearing the bottom of the barrel of some $50 billion of toxic assets held by the corporates that are being securitized.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge denied a request today from Vensure FCU for a temporary restraining order blocking NCUA’s April 15 conservatorship of the $4.7 million credit union linked to the ongoing scandal over online poker betting.

RALEIGH, N.C. – A former assistant manager at Navy FCU’s Fayetteville branch on Tuesday was sentenced to five years behind bars for planning a 2009 armed robbery at the branch where $309,900 was taken.

TEXAS CITY, Texas – AMOCO celebrated the opening of its newest full service ATM located at Alvin Community College in the Student Center.

DEL RIO, Texas – Border FCU has signed with Fifth Third Processing Services for ATM and debit card transaction processing, ATM driving, card production and network gateway access.

KENNEWICK, Wash. – HAPO Community CU is dubbing itself the “Official Sponsor of Summer” by sponsoring a number of events.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – Texas Dow Employees CU has purchased Birdsong Real Estate of Lake Jackson which, on May 1, will begin operating as TDECU Real Estate LLC – powered by Birdsong.

MIAMI – American Airlines FCU on Thursday will celebrate the opening of its newest branch at the Miami International Airport Maintenance facility, the credit union’s second branch at the airport.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Tyfone launched the first solution from a third-party vendor that allows any consumer with a mobile device to enroll in, and then use, mobile banking directly from a handset.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT FCU has implemented Integrated Media Management’s TotaleAtlasWeb remote signature capture and document delivery solution as part of a strategy to provide a true virtual branch.

TYSONS CORNER, Va. – Mortgage Harmony Corp. said CMG Mortgage Insurance Co. has agreed to provide private mortgage insurance for its self-adjusting HarmonyLoan.

VALRICO, Fla. – A suspected Grow Financial CU robber was hospitalized in critical condition yesterday after he was shot by a Hillsborough County deputy investigating Monday’s holdup.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Civic leaders and local businesses emerged from a meeting at the downtown offices of The Golden 1 CU with commitments for $10 million in sponsorships in an effort to convince the city’s lone major league sports team, the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, to stay in town.

WALL STREET – Space Coast CU on Tuesday filed suit against several Wall Street brokerages, claiming they sold risky investments to Eastern Financial Florida CU they knew were bound to fail, the first time the big credit union failures of the past few years have been brought to the doors of Wall Street.

ATLANTA – VSoft Corp., the maker of popular image exchange and remote capture technology, unveiled its own core processing system today for credit unions.

WASHINGTON – Vensure FCU, taken under conservatorship by NCUA two weeks ago, claims the federal regulator knew all along it was processing millions of dollars in online bets for the two biggest poker websites and had agreed at the agency’s behest to exit the business.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The former president of Alabama Central CU was charged by a federal grand jury yesterday with creating two fictitious companies through which he funneled $140,000 in phony expense payments from the credit union to himself.