PLANO, Texas — Facebook, Google, microsites and mobile banking are helping to attract younger members in droves to InTouch CU here.

NEW YORK-A 26-foot tall ad touting "NCUA-safe" coverage of federal deposit insurance makes its debut in iconic Times Square this morning, part of the NCUA public awareness campaign for the National CU Share Insurance Fund.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-NCUA last week released a report by its Office of Inspector General projecting final losses on the failure of WesCorp FCU of about $5 billion.

Pledges Of Support For Financial Ed

MADISON, Wis.-Those young potential members every credit union is chasing may never show up. At least not physically, and that's a reality credit unions are going to need to adapt to, according to a new study.

As more credit unions seek business lending as an engine for needed loan growth, prudence and research are advised in pursuing this largely untapped market.

Why does in-house processing make sense for such a wide spectrum of credit unions-from multi-billion dollar institutions to the very smallest? The reasons may not be clear to everyone.

One month into the job and at her first appearance as CEO of the California/Nevada CU Leagues, Diana Dykstra said she has not been charged with any specific mission by the leagues' board. Instead, she has her own charge.

ILUKA, Ill. – One or more thieves used a stolen excavator to tear an ATM out of the front of a Baxter CU branch last week and load it on to a stolen truck.

WATERVILLE, Me. – New Dimensions FCU has acquired an Augusta branch from troubled Border Trust, where it plans to open its second branch.

KIMBERLY, Wis. – Capital CU has acquired a two-story building here where the $390 million credit union plans to relocate its main offices.

DECATUR, Ill. – As part of the CU Student HELP program, CampusDoor will assist with the development and implementation of the loan program and provide specialized call center support to Utility Employees CU members.

EL PASO, Texas – GECU has installed Coordinated Systems, Inc.’s Virtual Observer call recording and quality monitoring system.

CHARLESTON, W.V. – Star USA FCU donated $70,000 to the Kanawha County School Board to finance the resufracing of the running track at the University of Charleston's Stadium Laidley Field.

MANCHESTER, N.H. –- Bellwether Community CU will once again make Thanksgiving dinner possible for over 150 needy families, with its staff delivering 2,000 pounds of turkeys to local food bank.

WASHINGTON – Regulators shuttered three more banks Friday, making a total of 149 bank failures for 2010.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said the generous employee pay raises set for next year were determined under arbitration with the agency’s examiner union after the two sides came to an impasse during negotiations.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – In searching for scapegoats for the huge failure of WesCorp FCU NCUA has focused increasing attention on the underwriters who sold the California corporate giant the toxic mortgage-backed securities that sunk it, especially the cozy relationship WesCorp had with now-defunct home loan giant Countrywide Financial Corp.–which was located just 50 miles down the road, in the city of Calabasas.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A new report on the failure of WesCorp FCU concludes the one-time $32 billion corporate had too much of its investments tied to a single real estate market–its home state of California–and one issuer, Countrywide Financial Corp., the California-based home loan giant that went down at the height of the mortgage bust.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – NCUA has agreed to release some 750,000 documents related to the failure of U.S. Central FCU in response to a suit brought by Corporate America CU.