EL PASO, Texas – GECU has selected TriGeo Network Security's Security Information Management solution to protect its network, improve and streamline its log file monitoring responsibilities, and comply with federal mandates.

DAVENPORT, Iowa – The Family CU has launched mobile banking services with Fiserv’s Mobile Money.

TUKWILA, Wash. – BECU said it has signed with CashEdge to offer the company’s POPmoney email and mobile person-to-person payments service to its members.

DURHAM, N.C. – Self-Help CU has agreed to acquire Carolina Mountains CU, which will give the well-known community development credit union more than $400 million in assets.

MADISON, Wis. – The former CEO of Rapids Municipal CU was found dead inside his car Monday night, an apparent suicide, hours after he missed a court hearing where he was scheduled to plead guilty to embezzling $645,000 from the now-defunct credit union.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Corporate credit union representatives will meet with NCUA tomorrow in hopes of convincing the regulator to allow them to recapture as capital projected losses being accounted for now that do not materialize.

SLIDELL, La. – Police are trying to find the thief or thieves who broke into and emptied an ASI FCU ATM on Halloween night.

CINCINNATI – Fifth Third Bancorp said its Fifth Third Processing Solutions unit signed four new credit unions to electronic funds transfer services, including gateway access, ATM and debit card processing, card production services and ATM terminal driving.

DES MOINES – TMG Financial Services said yesterday it has acquired credit card portfolios from Belvoir FCU in Woodbridge, Va., and Sun Center FCU in LaGrange, Ohio.

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia FCU has gone live with Integrated Media Management’s Web Gateway and TotaleAtlasWeb products.

FAIRBORN — Wright-Patt CU has acquired Select Mortgage Group Ltd., a mortgage-origination company, for undisclosed terms.

PHILADELPHIA – American Heritage FCU has signed with uMonitor to implement the company’s account opening and funding solution with automated switch kit, uOpen & uFund-TS.

LAKELAND, Fla. – MidFlorida CU, fresh off a conversion from federal charter, has asked state regulators for permission to expand into adjacent Hillsborough and Pasco counties.

PHOENIX – It would seem that the state’s two largest credit unions, Desert Schools FCU and Arizona FCU, would share the same gloomy outlook as the region’s devastated economy has pushed each deep into the red, Desert Schools to the tune of $49.5 million and Arizona Federal a $41.9 million loss through the first three quarters of the year.

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU, which has joined the fight against excessive overdraft protection fees, is introducing its own program aimed at lowering member costs for non-sufficient funds transactions.

NEW YORK – Hudson Valley FCU has filed a suit in state court challenging the state’s mortgage tax, arguing that federally chartered credit unions should be exempt from the levy.

MADISON, Wis. — Modified loans continue to default at an astounding rate with more than half of all those modified in the first two quarters of 2008 failing within 12 months of the modification according to new figures from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.

NEW LONDON, Conn. — NCUA has tied last year's failure of New London Security FCU here to fraud by its investment manager-who the regulator believes siphoned as much as $12 million from the $12.7-million institution.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — When it comes to gaining card marketshare, many within the credit union community say the key lies in differentiation.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — While most credit unions are not adjusting pricing in advance of the CARD Act, that may not be the case for credit unions that have sold their portfolios.