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uMonitor, the Memphis-based member acquisition and retention specialist, said it is renewing its contract and expanding its relationship with $4.1 billion Star One Credit Union in Sunnyvale, Calif.

The NCUA plans to issue rules on overdraft protection to align its rules with those of the Federal Reserve and other financial regulators at its meeting next Thursday.

Saying that expanding the Community Reinvestment Act to include credit unions will expand housing opportunities, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) today introduced a bill that would do that.

Aiming to blunt negative fallout from the closing of Central States Mortgage Corp., the Wisconsin Credit Union League said the problems at CSMC are an anomaly as distinguished from a "healthy growing industry with a strong performance in 2008."

Even as plaintiff's lawyers swarm like hornets, its stock price has plummeted and it has had to cut its dividend, Heartland Payment Systems has not lost merchant processing clients as a result of the biggest card security data breach in history.

Bernard Madoff's $10 million bail was revoked and he was immediately sent to jail to await sentencing for his role in a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.