GRAND RAPIDS, MI – January 7, 2015 The West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, CU*Answers is pleased to announce that in 2014 the SettleMINT EFT Team successfully completed sixteen online credit card conversions and projects, and twenty-five ATM/debit card conversions. “The calendar for 2015 is already almost full for the year and we have projects scheduled into…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a CUSO headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, recently completed a full system rollover to its newly established High Availability and Disaster Recovery center in Kentwood, Michigan. This 36-hour rollover exercise was a planned event to test the ability of offering full services from the newly established disaster recovery…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a member of the cuasterisk.com network of CUSOs, completed a 72-hour time frame of running the facility completely on the backup generator. This test was designed to simulate full normal utility power loss from the data center’s energy service provider. The 150KW, 336 gallon, diesel fueled, 3-phase generator…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a venture of the cuasterisk.com network of CUSOs, recently completed the physical and virtual move of its High Availability/Disaster Recovery infrastructure to the CU*Answers facility located in Kentwood, Michigan. Tim Kenney, Site-Four CIO said, “This important move allows Site-Four to take advantage of the physical security, redundancy, and…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a Yankton, South Dakota-based CUSO, is happy to announce that Shur-Co®, LLC has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. This three-year collocation agreement will allow Shur-Co to house their advanced backup solution in Site-Four’s state of the art facility in Yankton, South Dakota. Shur-Co is the…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a CUSO member of the cuasterisk.com network, is happy to announce that CU*Answers, a credit union core data processor, has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. The project is estimated to be completed by the end of 2016. This relationship will allow CU*Answers to further extend…
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – October 28, 2014 CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, announced the results of their annual reorganization board meeting held last week. Board Member positions will remain the same for 2015, with Chris Butler, CEO of Community Credit Union, La Crosse, Wisconsin as Chair; Scott McFarland, CEO of Honor Credit Union,…
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – October 27, 2014 CU*Answers cooperative CUSO recently announced their annual marketing program, CU*OverDrive, is ready for review and online orders are now being accepted from their credit union clients. CU*OverDrive is a fully coordinated marketing calendar bundled to complete a credit union’s annual marketing plan. As in years past, clients can…
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – October 27, 2014 CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, recently announced additional free “Grand Opening Kits” for their credit union clients. The Grand Opening Kit (GOK) program is a complete marketing-in-a-box campaign that offers a low-cost, easy way to market a product or service to members, both in the credit…
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – October 27, 2014 Cyber security is a hot topic these days as credit unions scramble to stay abreast of a rapidly shifting landscape where new vulnerabilities seem to surface faster than vendors can develop fixes. On October 8, 2014, CU*Answers was invited to share its perspective on cyber security at the…