SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Star One CU said it has renewed and expanded uOpen and uFund contracts with uMonitor and to add the company’s uTransfer account-to-account funds transfer services.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Employees FCU said it has purchased Cavion Mobile Banking Professional to supplement its current home banking suite.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Technology CU announced yesterday the introduction of an ATM locator service for ATMs.

OREGON CITY, Ore. – Officials with Clackamas FCU last week were lamenting the withdrawal of a $5 million deposit from Clackamas County for transfer to Dutch banking giant ING.

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Power Financial CU and office retailer Staples announced a Small Business Makeover promotion yesterday offering small business owners the chance to evaluate their marketing and win a $1,000 Staples Gift Card.

DALLAS – TNB Card Services announced yesterday the launch of a credit and debit card personalization service.

SAN DIEGO – Mitek Systems said yesterday it will conduct a test with mobile services provider mFoundry of a system that will allow consumers to deposit checks over their cell phones.

WASHINGTON – Faced with declining numbers, the National Federation of Community Development CUs is asking NCUA to act to convert some $16 million in low-interest loans through NCUA’s Community Development Revolving Loan Fund into permanent capital.

WASHINGTON – CUNA said yesterday the crashing stock markets slammed its investment portfolio last year to push the trade association deeper into the red, to the tune of $8 million.

SALEM, Mass. --An Iraq war veteran who admitted robbing St. Jean’s CU in adjacent Lynn four times over a seven-week span last year to feed his cocaine addiction received three to six years in prison as well as two years of probation Friday.

RACINE, Wis. – One of two men who accosted three Guardian CU employees arriving to work in May 2006 then made off with $128,8000, pleaded guilty to bank robbery charges last week after DNA evidence identified him one of the perpetrators.

GROTON, Conn. – Charter Oak FCU said it has implemented Harland Financial Solutions’ Touché Analyzer MCIF and Advisory Services consulting solutions.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – MAX CU said it has introduced commercial equipment leasing through a new unit, called MAX Leasing USA.

BROCKTON, Mass. – HarborOne CU, the Bay State’s second-largest credit union, unveiled a $100,000 marketing campaign aimed at highlighting its roots in this working-class suburb of Boston.

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. – In this age of the financial supermarket, when insurers, S&Ls, credit unions and others are seeking to be like your neighborhood bank, Connex CU wants to be known as the unbank.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – The Pennsylvania CU Association said Friday its credit unions can now offer their members discounts on wireless phone services through Sprint Nextel. More than 240,000 credit union members nationwide are already receiving discounts on wireless services through this plan.

WASHINGTON – CUNA reported Friday it contributed $85,000 to various conduits of the Democratic and Republican parties, the semi-annual downpayment on some $200,000 the credit union group donates to the two parties every election cycle.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Local credit unions and banks are teaming up for a program to help buyers purchase foreclosed properties in the city with state, local and private assistance.

WASHINGTON – Several credit union leaders called on Congress Friday to move forward on initiatives to allow troubled homeowners to restructure their mortgages through the bankruptcy courts just as the mainstream credit union lobby was stepping up its efforts to block the so-called cramdown legislation.

LENEXA, Kan. – When U.S. Central FCU surprised everyone last month–including NCUA–with a massive $1.1 billion loss for its recently completed fourth quarter it was precipitated by the implementation of a controversial and often confusing accounting term called other-than-temporary impaired, or OTTI.