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NEW YORK–A federal judge has dismissed nearly all of a lawsuit against Bank of America and US Bancorp that had been filed by NCUA and which sought to hold the two banks liable for losses on roughly $6.8 billion in toxic mortgage securities that helped drive five corporate CUs into conservatorship.

HOUSTON–A credit union has been chartered here to serve people of the Muslim faith who follow the Jafari School, community members and families of the Islamic Education Center of Houston, the Islamic Ahlul Bayt Association in Austin, or the Metroplex Organization of Muslims in North Texas.

EWING, N.J.–Credit Union of New Jersey is staging a one-day certificate promotion today that its members will want to leap on. CUANJ is offering a Leap Day Special Four-Year CD that is paying 2.90% APY.

EUREKA, Calif.–One of the best-known experts in the area of computer security and breaches is reporting his attempts to alert a credit union that its online banking system had been breached were rebuffed, and that it required several contacts to get the credit union to take the threat seriously.

PURCHASE, N.Y.–Saying it will eliminate the need for passwords, MasterCard said it will roll out later this year a facial biometrics app for authentication of online purchases. As CUToday.info earlier reported here, the rollout of the technology follows a four-month pilot that MasterCard conducted with First Tech FCU.