Kurt Hansen

  • Blockchain

    Cyber attacks. Silk Road and the theft of bitcoins on early digital exchanges. State and federal regulations built for a world of fiat currency. Barriers to the legal adoption and deployment of money built on distributed ledgers produced by cryptographic-strength algorithms are real and evolving. Credit unions are, at their core, ledgers of members’ accounts…

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  • eDOC Innovations at the GAC

    eDOC Innovations awarded 20 credit unions who visited their booth at the CUNA GAC with a free six-month subscription to its eDOCSignature solution. “Electronic transactions and data retention were among the many topics covered at the convention.  Credit unions need help to get into the game and we are working hard to drive the business…

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  • It’s Me 247 Online Banking Passes 4 Million Member Logins Marker in February

    Cooperative CUSO CU*Answers announced that during February It’s Me 247 Online Banking recorded over 4 million member logins from desktop devices, the highest single month volume in its history. Combined with logins from mobile devices, It’s Me 247 had a record 6.6 million logins during the month. CU*Answers has accelerated development of its online and…

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  • CU*Answers Announces a New Training Tool

    The West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, CU*Answers is pleased to announce that they are offering a new training tool for their clients, the CU*BASE Custom Training Edition (CTE).  “The CTE is a copy of the credit union’s live data, carried over to a training environment”, stated Laura Welch-Vilker, VP of Client Services and Education.  Welch-Vilker added,…

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  • CU*Answers Offers Partner Support

    The West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, CU*Answers is pleased to announce some of their on-going initiatives with their partners, CU*NorthWest and CU*SOUTH.  The partners have always worked together to offer client support, training and phone support.  “Typically, support is a scheduled event as it relates to staffing.  In June, CU*SOUTH had an unforeseen period of two…

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  • eDOC and IPNetVoice Partner for Secure Wireless BYOD

    eDOC Innovations recently partnered with IPNetVoice, a telecommunications provider located in Colchester Vermont, to offer mobile device management (MDM) to its credit union clients. The solution positioned by IPNetVoice and eDOC Innovations will protect critical software and information on any type of mobile device and allow for the device to be remotely wiped clean from…

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  • CU*Answers and Accenture Mortgage Cadence

    West Michigan-based core processor, CU*Answers, announced that for its 2015 fiscal year-to-date, it has experienced 20% growth in the number of Loan Origination System (LOS) sites offered through the Accenture Mortgage Cadence Loan Fulfillment Center platform. Since October 2014, the number of individual sites built and supported by CU*Answers’ Lender*RE team increased from 65 to…

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  • CMS Launches ‘Just Turn It On’ Portal

    CU*Answers Management Services, the consulting services division of the 100% credit union-owned, cooperative CUSO CU*Answers, announced it has published an online portal for its “Just Turn It On” initiative. The Just Turn It On program allows credit unions to quickly and easily have features of the CU*BASE® data processing system configured, activated and reported on…

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  • CU*Answers Values Mobile Application Development

    CU*Answers, a core processing CUSO, has a new team in the programming arena devoted exclusively for mobile application development. “A mobile application branch strategy will allow credit unions to attract new members, retain existing members, increase loans, grow their core services, and more. If your member’s phone is on your credit union is open,” said Randy…

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  • CU*Answers Introduces Custom Training Environment

    CU*Answers, data processor to over 180 credit unions nationwide, recently introduced a new training option to their clients: CU*BASE® CTE – Custom Training Edition. CU*BASE CTE is a new alternative to the shared simulated training environment, Bedrock Community Credit Union, currently used by all CU*Answers online clients. CTE offers credit union staff the opportunity to…

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