UNIVERSAL CITY, Texas – Randolph-Brooks FCU, the fast-growing Texas credit union giant, said it has opened a new branch on San Antonio's northwest side in the Rogers Place Shopping Center.

BISMARCK, N.D. – Midwest Corporate FCU, one of the smaller of the nation’s 28 corporate credit unions, said yesterday it exploring the conversion to a member-owned CUSO because like most corporates it will find it very difficult to recapitalize under NCUA’s proposed regulations.

KINGSTON, N.Y. – MidHudson Valley FCU is offering two new resources for college students, the Collegiate Funding Solutions Tool and the CU Student Choice private loan.

PORTLAND, Ore. – One of two men convicted of a major check-kiting scheme that hit six area credit unions was sentenced Monday to two years in prison and ordered to pay some $85,000 in restitution.

WASHINGTON – In its most active month of the two-year election cycle, CUNA reported yesterday it made a total of 99 campaign contributions in June for a total of more than $175,000.

FT. WAYNE, Ind. – In a merger of two credit unions chartered during the Great Depression, Beacon CU, the privately insured $710-million credit union, said it has agreed to acquire DeKalb Financial CU, a $92-million credit union based in nearby Auburn, Ind

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Yesterday’s announcement that Wings Financial CU has agreed to acquire City-County FCU will give the $2.7-billion credit union a new footprint in the area’s northern suburbs.

SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge this week granted NCUA a requested 90-day stay in a suit filed over an alleged get-rich-quick real estate scheme financed by HeritageWest FCU, which was taken over and liquidated by NCUA in December.

PLANO, Texas – Confidence among credit union CEOs remained low in the second quarter, according to Southwest Corporate FCU’s quarterly CEO Confidence Index.

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. – In the latest mega-merger, Wings Financial CU, the state’s biggest credit union that is currently in the process of absorbing nearby Highgrove Community FCU, said today it has agreed to acquire City-County FCU, Minnesota’s eighth-largest credit union, with $350 million in assets.

NORFOLK, Va. – A man allegedly responsible for two robberies and an attempted third heist at Chartway FCU branches the past two weeks was captured Friday after a Crime Line tip.

MUSKEGON, Mich. – Five area credit unions participated in the Annual Muskegon Walk for Diabetes on June 5, raising almost $10,000.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Greylock FCU and its Greylock Investment Group CUSO are presenting sponsors for the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ “Linda Mieko Allen, Young Ja Yoon,” an exhibition of abstract mixed-media artwork.

SAN DIEGO – A local member of Mission FCU won $2,000 as winner of the credit union’s “What's YOUR Mission?” video contest.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU has awarded 40 student members a $2,500 BECU Foundation Scholarship for the 2010-11 school year.

OAKLAND, Calif. – The Silicon Valley Community Foundation awarded Self-Help Economic Development a $150,000 grant it will use to support a branch in the low-income immigrant community of East San Jose.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Ginger McNally, president and CEO of Santa Cruz Community CU for the past eight years, is leaving the community development credit union to pursue a role in social and economic development.

BILOXI, Miss. – Keesler FCU announced it has promoted John Goff, its senior vice president since 2001, to be president and CEO, succeeding long-time CEO Scott Broome, who retired June 30 as head of the $1.9 billion credit union.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA said yesterday it barred Richard Koenig, the well-known former president of Prime Financial CU when it was taken over by state regulators in March 2009, from the credit union industry.

ALBANY, N.Y. – Capital Communications FCU has acquired two mortgage service companies based here.