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Marc Rapport has been Credit Union Times' technology correspondent for more than a decade.

Bethpage Federal Credit Union recently announced a deal with Suffolk County, N.Y., to acquire the naming rights to the Suffolk County Sports Complex, which will now be called Bethpage Ballpark.

This year will go down as the one in which the real estate and mortgage markets in many areas moved from a sense of crisis to one where credit unions began to find a little bit of stability.

As the new year approaches, many credit unions are looking for new ways to increase profits and become more effective.

World Council of Credit Unions is doing its part to make sure credit unions are front and center in the United Nations' International Year of Cooperatives celebration in 2012.

The approximately 330 credit unions using the Sharetec core processing system will now be offered the personal digital relationship building services of Segmint Inc. of Akron, Ohio, the company said.

Two more companies have joined Symitar's Vendor Integration Program, a service designed to streamline and support integration work between third-party vendors and the Episys core processing system.

Credit unions rely on their existing members to keep them in business.