KETTERING, Ohio – Day Air CU has introduced an instant card issuing program, allowing members to receive their credit and debit cards the same day they open an account.

JACKSON, Ark. – Arkansas FCU is among the first credit unions to integrate VSoft Corp.’s Home/Office Capture solution with S1 Corp.’s PM Systems WebFederal3 Internet Banking platform.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Genisys CU said it has contracted with CU Student Choice to offer private student loans through the CUSO.

SAN ANTONIO – Firstmark CU has selected e-mail and interactive marketing provider ExactTarget to direct online communications to its 90,000 members.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – MAX FCU has installed Financial Management Solutions Inc.’s Lobby Tracking System at its 13 branches.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU has signed on to a new Internet Fraud Alert program being offered by Internet Identity in partnership with the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The trend in credit union mergers continued, with NCUA reporting yesterday several more troubled institutions are being merged into giant credit unions.

MADISON, Wis. – CUNA Mutual Group said it will, for the first time, host its 2010 Discovery Conference online on Nov. 3.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A former teller at defunct N&W Poca Division FCU, one of several family members charged in a $2.4 million fraud that sunk the one-time $7 million credit union, yesterday pleaded guilty to a single fraud count in connection with the scheme.

BATON ROUGE, La. – Pelican State CU is offering participants at its new in-school branch at Peabody Magnet High School additional benefits.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Singing River FCU has purchased a former Godfather's Pizza building near the airport, which recently was used as temporary branch for Bay Bank.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – Kellogg Community FCU said it is expanding off the campus of the food manufacturing giant with a new branch in a former comedy club location.

ATLANTA – Georgia’s Own CU has agreed to finance the $36 million purchase of one of this city’s landmark buildings, the 20-story Campanile, or Bell Tower, vacant since BellSouth/AT&T moved out in 2007 – and the credit union’s home since 1993.

VIENNA, Va. – With Navy FCU’s agreement to merge with San Diego’s USA FCU, the world’s largest credit union will acquire 19 new branches, 11 of them overseas, in the biggest credit union deal yet for international branches.

SAN ANTONIO – United SA FCU has released United SA Mobile, a fully functional iPhone and iPod touch mobile banking application for local credit union members.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – uMonitor is the latest vendor with a person-to-person payment solution, offering an application to its popular uTransfer account transfer solution.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico Educators FCU has become one of the first credit unions to go live with Integrated Media Management’s TotaliSign iPad application.

SAN FRANCISCO – Intuit, Inc., and several credit union defendants have asked a federal court here to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought by MShift over its mobile banking technology, saying the company’s patent is outmoded and not pertinent to their technology.

MANATI, P.R. – NCUA said this afternoon it liquidated Industries Puerto Rico FCU here, the 25th credit union failure of the year, and assigned the assets of the one-time $7 million credit union to nearby Borinquen Community FCU.

LAS VEGAS-With credit union travel budgets still stretched thin, ACUMA is offering access to its 2010 Fall Conference this week via a live telecast at a reduced rate.