All the newfound media attention directed toward credit unions is providing a big lift to online find-a-CU services offered by trade groups, principally CUNA and NAFCU.

Mid-America Credit Union Association has named Robbie Thompson, vice president/ general counsel of the $280 million Members Cooperative Credit Union of Cloquet, Minn. as its new president/CEO.

Now that Alabama's largest credit union, the $2.6 billion Redstone Federal is officially a CUNA member once again, Joseph H. Newberry, its president/CEO, was doing his part in the interchange fight by rounding up local CU support to lobby Congressmen.

Interchange remains just as much a searing issue among Louisiana credit unions as elsewhere but "we are being respectful to our Congressional delegation" because of the BP oil spill, the Louisiana Credit Union League said Friday.

The $1.8 billion UW Credit Union of Madison, Wis. said it is buying another bank branch building and converting it into a CU facility next year.

The $279 million PrimeWay FCU of Houston said this week it "is just waiting on the final paperwork" from the NCUA to complete a merger of the ailing $125 million TexasOne Community CU, also of Houston.

The Iowa Credit Union League and its counterpart the Iowa Bankers Association are running a joint op-ed this weekend in the Des Moines Register touting the consumer fallout should Congress enact the reg reform provision.

The $1.4 billion Summit Credit Union of Madison, Wis. said last week it has received member and regulatory approval to merge the $68 million State Central CU of Milwaukee effective June 30.