ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA has cleared Mattel FCU to operate branches under different names, like those of the giant toy maker’s other operating subsidiaries.

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OAKLAND, Calif. - Kaiperm FCU, another California credit union wracked by big losses, is negotiating a merger with Alliant CU, the Chicago credit union giant that was chartered to serve United Airlines employees.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA approved the mergers of more ailing CUs, in many cases allowing large credit unions to expand their footprints.

BFG Federal Credit Union, Akron, Ohio, promoted Michael Owens to CEO and Cheryl Foster to executive vice president.

Events

MOORHEAD, Minn. - A man who used a knife to threaten an employee at Affinity Plus CU to steal $7,700 last August was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution.

HONOLULU - Aloha Airlines FCU said it plans to rebrand itself, introduce new products and change its name over the next 12 months in an effort to shed its ties with its bankrupt corporate sponsor.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Option 1 CU said it is teaming with United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan to make it easier for people with disabilities to buy computers and equipment to work from home for an employer, or to start a home-based business.

NAPANOCH, N.Y. - Eastern New York FCU was approved to serve all state and local government employees in nine surrounding counties, a so-called TIP, or trade, industrywide or professionwide charter, NCUA reported.

DUBUQUE, Iowa - Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony dangles the promise of big savings, but some IT experts are sending out a wake-up call on potential security issues related to the technology.

EUGENE, Ore. - LANECO FCU is hunting for its charter members to help in the celebration of the $18-million CU’s 50th anniversary.

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The following are members of Credit Union Journal’s Technology Panel.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. - Credit unions and banks online often lack “color and warmth,” but visitors to the new Orange County’s CU site get a splash of orange and the flash of smiling faces, according to Laura Thompson, CIO at the $930-million CU here.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - The $2-billion Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union has launched the Addison Café, an online branch aimed at Generation Y.

Pewaukee, Wis. - There’s no longer any reason to keep the credit union’s back-up media underneath the mattress at home, according to Dustin Stone, director, information systems, Wisconsin Credit Union League.

GLASTONBURY, Conn. - Open Solutions, a provider of integrated, enterprise-wide data processing technologies, said that three credit unions have selected its The Complete Credit Union Solution-sme (Standard Market Edition).

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Fiserv has signed three credit union clients to core processing contracts, while transitioning one client to a different core processor in the Fiserv family. The newest Fiserv clients include: