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WASHINGTON—With November’s elections now just two weeks away, CUNA is making substantial investments in two more political races.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—With Apple Pay likely nudging more consumers toward mobile payments, PSCU is working with Apple to make sure credit unions are able to enroll with the mobile wallet.

SPOKANE, Wash.—The Northwest Credit Union Association has introduced what it is calling a new technology marketplace to “connect Northwest credit unions to the brightest fintech startups” called “betaSpace.”

ONTARIO, Canada—With National Co-op Week being celebrated this week in Canada, credit unions in this province are part of a series of conferences and roundtables among all types of cooperatives.

WASHINGTON—Forty-seven percent of U.S. merchant terminals will be EMV enabled by the end of 2015, estimates the Payments Security Task Force (PST).

MADISON, Wis.—This week marks International Credit Union Week around the world. According to the World Council of Credit Unions, at year-end 2013 there were 56,904 credit unions globally serving 207,935,920 people. Overall credit union assets stood at $1.732 trillion.

BLACKPOOL, England—Blackpool, Fyle and Wyre Credit Union has opened on Birley Street in this town’s financial district it found dozens of people waiting for it. Many are welcoming the CU as a means of fighting payday lenders, including the City Council, which helped to clear the way by a former travel agent’s office to provide the CU with space. The credit union is now operating near other providers, including Natwest, Barclays and HSBC, and had been operating out of offices inside Coastal Housing prior to the move. 

BROOKFIELD, Wis.—Fiserv is reporting that its Comparalytics module within the LoanComplete suite of product solutions, which already completes the standard document-to-system data comparison, now “compares documents to any and all other documents associated with the loan file, regardless of the type of document.”

EDINBURG, Texas.–The Texas Department of Credit Unions has declined comment to CUToday.info regarding any investigation that may be taking place related to the liquidation of County & Municipal Employees Credit Union here.