ROCKVILLE, Md.-With an eye toward vertical growth, National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union (NIHFCU) has partnered with Women in Bio, an organization for females working in bioscience in Baltimore, Washington and Northern Virginia.

Douglas Clinton joined Magnolia FCU, Jackson, Miss., as VP of operations.

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.-Credit unions that believe high fees are the primary reason they have seen an influx of former bank customers becoming new members are wrong, according to a new study.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-An employee of Tallahassee-Leon Federal Credit Union here was abducted outside his home early on President's Day, Feb. 21, and taken to the CU to access the vault while his family was held hostage in the home-echoing a string of similar crimes some years ago.

Poll Finds Member Satisfaction Takes A Dip

VENTURA, Calif.-A technology model developed to serve members in Mexico is heading north and will be piloted by a California credit union as a way to reach out to the unbanked and underbanked.

MBL BILL 5.0 INTRO'D IN SENATE, HOUSE VERSION EXPECTED SOON

Har-Co, which last month announced plans to convert to a bank, was founded in 1955 to serve school employees in Harford County, Maryland. Here's hoping that for them the lesson won't come after the test.

It seems to me that when someone agrees to do a job for a certain salary, the rewards for doing the job well are that the person is paid and he gets to keep the job.

A merger is like most financial decisions, especially if valuations resemble Three-Card Monte; when they do, emotions tend to play a much larger role than most of us would like to acknowledge.

What if we created solutions that members would want to adopt and use, instead of more hoops for them to jump through?

IOWA CITY, Iowa – A team for University of Iowa Community CU raised $22,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County.

LEOMINSTER, Mass. – Members of two local credit unions are being warned to keep a close eye on accounts linked to their debit cards after some apparently fraudulent activity was noticed.

CINCINNATI – Emery FCU has signed with Share One to install the company’s NewSolutions from Share One as its new data processing solution.

LARGO, Fla. – Achieva CU has opened a new branch in Sarasota in a building recently vacated by Tropical Financial CU.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU has introduced its first mobile banking app and FinanceWorks, a free personal financial management system powered by Intuit’s Quicken.

WASHINGTON – Regulators closed two banks Friday, the 24th and 25th bank failures so far in 2011.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Police are searching for a man viewed on a video surveillance camera who attached a card skimming machine to an ATM at Lacamas Community CU last week.

WASHINGTON – Visa and MasterCard are telling their credit union and bank owners the uncertainty they will face over litigation costs for a pending antitrust case over the networks’ anti-steering provisions will continue indefinitely, even as the controversy escalates over the Federal Reserve’s proposed rules on debit fees.

WASHINGTON – The House Financial Services Committee last week approved bills to repeal two Obama administration programs aimed at helping refinance troubled homeowners, including the Home Affordable Modification Program, which has subsidized more than two dozen mortgage refis through credit unions.