MANCHESTER, N.H. – Bellwether Community CU has rolled out a new mobile banking service provided by NCR Corp., one of the first credit unions to use NCR mobile banking solution. The $330 million credit union, which already uses NCR ATMs and its online banking solution, has deployed NCR’s APTRA Mobile Banking, allowing its members to view accounts, search transactions, pay bills, transfer funds and find an ATM or branch via text, mobile web browser or downloadable application. To make deployment fast and simple, NCR is providing Bellwether with mobile banking as a hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. SaaS is a scalable implementation model, allowing credit union customers to pay for only what they need now, and the ability to add more capabilities and bandwidth when required. It also provides the credit union with easy access to new technology features and software upgrades when they’re ready for them. Bellwether has integrated APTRA Mobile Banking with its existing APTRA Online Banking and APTRA eMarketing solutions. APTRA eMarketing helps financial institutions deliver personalized, relevant marketing messages to customers through their preferred channel. With APTRA eMarketing, Bellwether can promote its new mobile capabilities to customers.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Association of CU Internal Auditors yesterday launched an online Interactive Audit Guide for credit union.

LOWELL, Mass. – Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union’s fundraiser “We Share A Common Thread” raised more than $20,000 to help fund critical patient care and life-saving research at Children’s Hospital Boston and support the needs of local patients battling cancer at Lowell General Hospital.

POTTSVILLE, Penn. – Hidden River CU, which serves mostly school districts, has been approved by state regulators to convert to a community charter serving the 150,000 residents of surrounding Schuylkill County.

PORTLAND, Ore. – State regulators have approved an application from OnPoint Community CU to add Crook and Jefferson counties in central Oregon to its field of membership.

WESTBURY, N.Y. – Nassau Educators’ FCU has implemented Guardian Analytics’ FraudMAP Version 4 for Retail Banking to protect its online banking channel from the growing threat of fraud.

MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin CU rolled out a new online interactive financial training device called MoneyCoach.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Florida Gov. Rick Scott will join officials of Navy FCU for Friday’s grand opening of the 224,000-square-foot Building 4 of the credit union’s huge call center here.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU said it is providing members with 5% cash back on every gas purchase paid for at the pump and 1% cash back on all other purchases with the use of its PenFed Visa Platinum Cash Rewards Card.

BRAINTREE, Mass. – Tremont CU, the subject of a state supervisory action a year ago, yesterday named former Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker to its volunteer board of directors.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA has reconsidered its prior position barring credit union reimbursement for non-voting advisory committee members and said in a new legal opinion reimbursement is permissible as long as the volunteer is providing a service that goes above and beyond a mere honorary capacity.

WALL STREET – NCUA is expected to hit the Street Thursday with an offering of $1.5 billion of NCUA Guaranteed Notes being used to finance the corporate credit union bailout, the first offering in three weeks. This week’s offering, the tenth since October, makes a total of more than $25 billion of the notes sold, the proceeds of which are being used to pay off credit union depositors in the five failed corporates: U.S. Central FCU, WesCorp FCU, Members United Corporate FCU, Southwest Corporate FCU and Constitution Corporate FCU. NCUA plans to offer another $3 billion of the notes as part of the program. The notes are federally guaranteed and are backed by the cash flows on toxic mortgage-backed securities owned by the five corporate failures. The latest offering is backed by residential MBS. Barclays Capital is the lead underwriter of the offering.WALL STREET – NCUA is expected to hit the Street Thursday with an offering of $1.5 billion of NCUA Guaranteed Notes being used to finance the corporate credit union bailout, the first offering in three weeks.

PHILADELPHIA – Police are hunting for a brazen robber who held up a branch of Police and Fire FCU yesterday while dozens of law enforcement officials were waiting to do business.

DETROIT – Members of Fannie B. Peck CU are mourning the death of John Edmonson, Jr., a 60-year member of the credit union’s board, who died Feb. 23.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Police arrested a suspect last week and charged him with four local armed robberies, including two at local credit unions.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Cornerstone Financial CU plans to award 25 $1,000 scholarships to high schools in middle Tennessee.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Summit FCU is the lead sponsor for the Syracuse University Football Team’s first “Orange on the Road” spring practice and scrimmage later this month.

HERNDON, Va. – Northwest FCU said yesterday it has implemented SAS Anti-Money Laundering, part of the SAS Enterprise Financial Crimes Framework for Banking from a provider of business analytics software and services.

SAN ANTONIO – Air Force FCU opened a new branch in Del Rio yesterday, the $335 million credit union’s first new branch in nine years and first outside of San Antonio.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. – Bellco CU, a $2 billion credit union chartered to serve the local telephone company, has applied to state regulators to expand to serve all 610,000 residents of Denver County.