RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU yesterday introduced a new prepaid Visa account/card aimed at helping members better manage their money which won’t allow an overdraft.

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas state CU Department said it handled 100 written consumer complaints last year, up from 77 the year before, and complaints about overdraft fees were the most common, by far.

FREMONT, Ohio – A former employee of Fremont FCU last week pleaded innocent to stealing $101,000 from the credit union.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) has introduced a new name for its service corporation – LEVERAGE.

AUSTIN, Texas – A+ FCU is expanding its relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services by adding the company’s AppOne online loan system.

ERIE, Penn. – Erie General Electric FCU is teaming with Intuit Financial Services to offer FinanceWorks, a new financial management solution.

BREA, Calif. – Evangelical Christian CU has selected Arcot’s A-OK On Demand Cloud Authentication Service to provide secure online financial transactions for the credit union’s church, Christian school and missionary account holders in more than 100 countries.

FAIRHAVEN, Mass. – First Citizens’ FCU has named Strategis its first agency of record for social media to provide it with assistance in developing a presence on Facebook and all major social networks/media sites.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – NCUA said it has granted a broad TIP charter to National Institutes of Health FCU that will enable the $490 million credit union to serve anyone in the health services field in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia or West Virginia.

HOUSTON – TA Associates, the venture capital firm that financed Cardtronics, benefitted from the rally in financial services stocks with the sale of 7 million shares in the ATM operator for $84 million.

HILLIARD Ohio – Credit Union of Ohio is offering a $5,000 scholarship to an Ohio State University student who submits the most likeable short video presentation answering the question: “How could you save $20 a day for 10 days?”

AUSTIN, Texas – Amplify CU is joining the variety of credit union giveaways of new homes, a year of mortgage payments or cash prizes with a its video contest for $7,500 in college tuition – the equivalent of a year’s fees for the average public school.

LANSING, Mich. – Chrysler again has suspended its participation in Invest in America’s Affiliate Rewards Program, meaning credit union members no longer will be eligible for special discounts on Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles.

DENVER – State chartered credit unions could be entitled to millions of dollars of tax refunds from the IRS under a decision handed down yesterday by a federal court here.

BATON ROUGE, La. — CRIF Corp., which has been building its credit union market with recent acquisitions of Teres Systems, Aimbridge and FLS Services, said today it has agreed to acquire APPRO Systems online lending from Equifax.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y-The best thing credit unions can do this spring to boost auto lending is to focus on — and get creative with — used car loans. With much of the new-car market ceded to banks, analysts suggest the winnable battle is with used cars because CUs' used car rates compete favorably with banks, and often beat them.

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