TEXAS CITY, Texas – AMOCO FCU has improved its overall lending volume with the deployment and capabilities afforded through Integrated Media Management’s TotaleAtlasWeb, the company’s remote signature capture and secure document delivery solution.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU has implemented Consumer Source Capture from Fiserv to allow its members to make deposits any time from the convenience of their homes.

WEST JORDAN, Utah – Mountain America CU has added mobile remote deposit capture capabilities to its mobile banking platform, enabling members to securely deposit checks with a camera-equipped smart phone, providing the added convenience of anytime, anywhere deposits.

KENSINGTON, Md. – Signal Financial FCU said it has increased the signature debit usage of its cardholding members by 80% through CO-OP Financial Services’ Revelation, a Web-based tool that gives it the ability to analyze cardholder transaction data.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The former officer manager for Wyman-Gordon FCU took the stand yesterday during her fraud and embezzlement trial and denied she and her husband faked the 2002 robbery of $210,000 from the credit union.

LAS VEGAS – Three issues dominate the credit union lending space: a search for loan growth, portfolio problems and regulations.

LAS VEGAS – After making the difficult decisions to close two branches and lay off 18% of its staff in 2009, Bay Federal Credit Union is embarking on an overhaul of how it prices its products according to the member who is using them.

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday abandoned an appeal of a ruling favoring Bellco CU in the Denver credit union’s challenge of the unrelated income tax, or UBIT, handing state chartered credit unions a second legal victory over the IRS in the past 12 months.

WASHINGTON – CUNA increased its bets this afternoon on two endangered congressional allies and one newcomer, financing $102,000 of independent ads–separate from the candidates’ official campaigns–just two weeks before election day.

PARMA, Ohio – Joseph Coleman, a longtime worker for the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. who served 45 years on the company’s credit union, now called Taleris CU, died Oct. 9 at 75.

LATHRUP VILLAGE, Mich. – Michigan First CU is promising members and non-members Wicked Deals on Wonderful Wheels with a Halloween car sale of used and new vehicles.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU is offering 3% cash back on electronics and sporting good purchases on its PenFed VISA Platinum Cash Rewards Card.

VENTURA, Calif. – Ventura County CU has installed S1 Corp’s mobile banking application.

AUSTIN, Texas – University FCU has contracted with Firethorn Holdings LLC, a unit of Qualcomm Inc., to provide its members with mobile banking services.

HOUGHTON LAKE, Mich. – North Central Area CU said it has appointed Jacci Pothoof, who started working at the credit union 25 years ago as a part-time teller, as president and CEO of the $75 million institution.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – A former broker for Affinity FCU’s Affinity Investment Services LLC, who claimed she was fired after complaining about alleged wrongdoing in the investment CUSO, was awarded a $925,000 judgment by the broker-dealer regulatory agency, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA.

CINCINNATI – Emery FCU will become the first lender to provide mortgages through a new online origination and pricing platform being launched by NeighborWorks America, a community development intermediary.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Corporate America CU, which is suing officers and directors of U.S. Central FCU over an ill-fated 2008 conversion of corporate capital that was wiped out soon after, has subpoenaed the records of U.S. Central’s auditor, BDO Seidman.

PHILADELPHIA – Sb1 FCU is still trying to find out how identity thieves were able to tap into a member’s home equity line of credit, steal his private information – including passwords – and convince the credit union to wire $220,000 from the HELOC to an unrelated account in Hong Kong.

HAWTHORNE, Calif. – SkyOne FCU, the former Civil Aeronautics Administration employees credit union, said it has agreed to acquire two smaller airline credit unions, Pacific Advantage FCU, which serves Japan Airlines, and Cypress West FCU, the credit union for Australia’s Quantas Airways.