NORTH CANTON, Ohio – Aided by a surge in third quarter revenues, ATM maker Diebold moved from the red to the black for the quarter to the tune of $47.5 million.

BROOMALL, Penn. – Franklin Mint FCU has completed an analysis of its mail marketing using Experian’s Auto In the Market Model.

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Granite State CU said yesterday it has agreed to install Fiserv’s Acumen in-house account processing solution.

WASHINGTON – Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages rose slightly this week, for the second week in a row, to an average of 4.23%, from 4.21% last week, just above the lowest level in decades.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Golden 1 CU was among six financial institutions this week that bought a total of $6.7 in interim short-term notes to help the state of California pay delinquent bills that piled up during the state’s record-length budget impasse.

PIERRE, S.D. – State financial regulators on Thursday issued a cease and desist order against what appears to be a phony credit union doing business as Denali Alliance Holdings, Credit Union Services, or Alliance CU, based in Springfield, S.D.

WILKES-BARRE, Penn. – A new survey commissioned by a local newspaper, The Times Leader, found Democrat Paul Kanjorski, the credit union champion on Capitol Hill, holding an 8-point lead over perennial Republican rival Lou Barletta, 47% to 39%, as Election Day draws near.

WASHINGTON – A study released yesterday concludes that politics influenced which of the 189 credit union applicants received capital infusions announced last month from the Treasury’s bank bailout fund, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

WALL STREET – NCUA will continue the liquidation of U.S. Central FCU and WesCorp FCU next week with the sale of $2.82 billion worth of ten-year Guaranteed Noted comprised of cash-flows from commercial mortgage-backed securities held by the two corporate failures.

ATLANTA – Credit bureau Equifax on Wednesday said an 11% rise in third quarter revenues helped fuel a 28% rise in earnings for the period.

SAN FRANCISCO – Visa Inc. yesterday reported its four-quarter earnings soared by 51%, to $774 million, as consumers used cards carrying its brand more and transaction processing revenue rose.

HONOLULU – Fifth Third Processing Solutions has signed processing deals with four Hawaii credit unions: Hawaiian Tel FCU, Windward Community FCU, The Queen's FCU and Garden Island FCU.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Whatcom Educational CU, through its Social Responsibility Committee, made $20,248 in donations to 21 local organizations this month.

EWING, N.J. – At Ewing High School, a former closet has become a student-run branch for the Blue Devil Branch of Credit Union of New Jersey.

ITHACA, N.Y. – CFCU Community FCU said Robert Witty, president of the $700 million credit union, will retire at year end after 42 years with the credit union.

HOUSTON – First Service CU on Wednesday announced it is combining with Right Choice CU in the most recent of Houston credit union marriages.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The former officer manager for Wyman-Gordon FCU and her husband were found guilty of stealing more than $210,000 from the credit union by staging a 2002 robbery.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA continues to shop for merger mates for two prominent credit unions taken over during the past year, California’s Arrowhead Central CU and Florida’s Keys FCU, even as the financial condition of both continued to deteriorate in the third quarter.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – The boards of Kinecta FCU and NuVision FCU have completed their due diligence and signed a formal intent to combine the two credit unions, the latest of a string of huge mergers remaking the credit union landscape.

SANDY, Utah – uGenius Technology has won a U.S. Patent for the video 24/7 Personal Teller it is piloting at credit unions and banks.