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Invest in America has added another partner to the program and participating credit unions can now give members access to more than 1,200 online merchants through the online mall Shop America.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is scheduled to be one of the guests today at the opening of HarborOne Credit Union's HarborOne U, an education center that will offer a number of financial programs.

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.

Applications to become the next top credit union executive have closed, and tomorrow the voting begins.

Fraudsters have gotten so efficient at creating, selling and deploying malware that one major Internet security firm now calls it "fraud-as-a-service."

Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, which is suing the State of New York over the legality of the mortgage recording tax, is itself the subject of a lawsuit from members who had to pay the tax.