RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – CO-OP Financial Services said it has added six business partners for its new mobile banking solution, in addition to several other partnerships.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Forty years after being founded to serve the University of Tennessee, UT FCU is returning to where it started and is opening a branch on campus here.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania’s Treasury Department has launched the Women & Money Project, an effort to support programs to bolster to women’s success at “those stages where women become economically vulnerable,” according to the state.

NEW YORK – Citigroup has become the first of the major card issuers to start adding annual fees to some existing credit card accounts in an effort to offset the effects of new laws cracking down on certain credit card practices.

MONETT, Mo. – Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., has acquired Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc., Atlanta, a provider of solutions designed to improve the performance of financial institutions.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Consumers now are able to lock and unlock their debit and/or credit cards in seconds – if that card is issued by a PSCU credit union, that is.

ARLINGTON, Va. – With two provisions of the Credit CARD Act going into effect this week, a new survey shows most credit unions expect their compliance demands are only going to increase.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – The Pennsylvania CU Association is opposing a proposal to help whip the state’s budget into shape by reducing or eliminating tax exemptions for non-profit entities, including credit unions.

WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration is attempting to allay concerns that its proposed consumer protection agency will not be overly focused on banks and, to a lesser extent, credit unions, and not on non-bank lenders.

PHOENIX - Desert Schools FCU is searching for a member who allegedly exchanged fake rolled coins for cash.

MADISON, Wis. – A group of former CUNA Mutual Group executives have filed suit challenging the credit union insurer’s conversion of its health insurance plan for retirees the beginning of the year.

SAN DIEGO – Mitek Systems, the provider of image analytics and mobile document capture systems, said revenues fell for its fiscal third quarter, helping create a loss of $240,000, compared to a $40,000 profit for the same period last year.

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man who opened three accounts at Wescom Central CU using phony identities was convicted Friday of committing $2.8 million in fraud by stealing the identities of more than a dozen people and using them to buy a home, try to buy a boat, open lines of credit.

SALT LAKE CITY – Granite FCU said last week it has hired Lynn Kuehne, former president of the Utah League of CUs and of Utah First CU, as its new president and CEO.

PITTSBURGH – NCUA said Friday it has approved the expansion of Century Heritage FCU to cover all of Allegheny County, Penn., and its 1.3 million residents, in one of the biggest field of membership expansions this year.

WASHINGTON – The FDIC shut down $25 billion Colonial BancGroup on Friday, the biggest bank closure so far this, and three other smaller institutions, making a total of 78 bank failures in 2008.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NCUA reported Friday it has approved several more mergers of ailing credit unions, those reporting losses or no growth, or both.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – NCUA reported Friday it has approved the combination of NuVision Financial FCU with troubled E1 Financial CU, to create a $1.2 billion credit union.

BURBANK, Calif. – A long-time member of Partners FCU is in a dispute with her credit union over four round-trip plane tickets to China that were secretly charged to her Visa card by an unauthorized third party--her ten-year-old son.

This month's technology special report includes a look at how credit unions are using social media to boost their collections efforts, the quest for a comprehensive tool for managing all kinds of risk, as well as coverage out of the CUNA Technology Council Summit and much more.