DULUTH, Ga. – Georgia United CU said it contracted with Bluepoint Solutions to install the company’s comprehensive content management and check capture and processing solution.

VACAVILLE, Calif. – Travis CU, which is in the process of merging with Metro 1 CU, plans to open three new branches after the April 30 completion of the deal, as the credit union celebrates its 60th anniversary.

DETROIT – A Southfield investment adviser on Tuesday pleaded guilty to operating a $10 million Ponzi scheme that raised funds from several municipalities, a school district, a bank and a credit union serving churches.

WASHINGTON – Lenders would be required to make sure prospective borrowers have the ability to repay their mortgages before giving them a loan, under a proposal released by the Federal Reserve yesterday.

BEL AIR, Md. – HAR-CO FCU has submitted applications to federal banking regulators to convert to a mutual savings bank, the first credit union conversion in more than two years.

LOS ANGELES – Claiming that “hindsight is 20/20,” the former directors of WesCorp FCU asked a federal court yesterday to dismiss NCUA’s negligence suit against them over the failure of the one-time $34 billion corporate.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A U.S. appellate court has approved Minnesota’s TCF Bank’s request for an expedited appeal of a lower court ruling denying a bid to block the Federal Reserve’s final rule on interchange charges, setting up a three-way race between the courts, the Fed and Congress on the controversial effort to limit the lucrative fees.

MACON, Ga. – A man who took a taxicab to rob a Robins FCU branch here Friday afternoon was arrested within five minutes.

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group has implemented SailPoint IdentityIQ as its identity governance and solution to minimize risk, achieve compliance and improve business efficiencies.

CARMEL, Ind. – Allied Solutions, LLC said yesterday it has purchased Alamo Financial Insurance Services, a San Francisco insurance agency.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU last week presented a check for $10,000 to a wounded Marine Corp. retiree to help fund Homes for Our Troops, which helps severely injured servicemen and women and their immediate families.

CORNING, N.Y. – Corning CU opened its 14th branch, and third in North Carolina, in Wilmington to serve employees at the Corning Corp. fiber optics plant there.

STERLING, Ill. – Select Employees CU has signed with MRG Document Technologies to provide it with loan disclosures and closing packages through its web-based MIRACLE Online document preparation technology.

KETTERING, Ohio – Day Air CU now is offering members a personalized photo image feature on its Visa debit cards.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Members CU has signed with the Indianapolis Indians to sponsor the 2011 season for the Triple A minor league affiliates for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

WASHINGTON – Two former employees at the American Red Cross’ Clara Barton FCU last week pleaded guilty to arranging more than $675,000 in fraudulent loans from the credit union, which was merged into Pentagon FCU in 2008.

ARLINGTON, Va. – The vast majority of credit unions reject the Republicans’ plan to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and insist that the government retain a role in the secondary mortgage market, according to a new survey by NAFCU.

MESA, Ariz. – NCUA, which had been monitoring unusual financial activity for months at Vensure FCU, took over the $4.7 million credit union Friday afternoon after the Justice Department seized accounts at the credit union and 31 banks used to clear billions of dollars in illicit online poker bets.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The "Crashers" group may no longer be the upstarts they once were, but the group is still keenly focused on changing the CU community from the inside out.

WASHINGTON-CUNA is asking credit unions to help generate more than one-million contacts with Congress in support of delaying the Durbin Amendment on interchange reform.