Tony Muka

  • Illinois CU Taps Call Center for Conversion Support

    The call center at Xtend, Inc., a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, is in the process of handling the overflow inbound member service calls for a new credit union partner.  Warrenville, IL-based Northstar Credit Union ($77M in assets; 8K members) contracted the CUSO’s Xtension Call Center to assist its staff during the early stages…

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  • CUSO Mortgage Servicing Grows 20% Overnight

    When the SRS back-office support team of Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, was asked two years ago by fellow CUSO CU*Answers, Inc. to build a core competency in mortgage servicing, they anticipated a relatively steady demand for those services based on the success of previous joint efforts between the two CUSOs. …

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  • Call Center Helps Drive Attendance

    When the CU*Answers Management Services (CMS) leadership team was looking to drive attendance for two of its strategic risk management web conferences, it had to look no further than across the hall for a partner’s assistance.  The Xtension Call Center – a business unit of Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO Xtend, Inc. – was engaged…

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  • CUSO Completes Liquidation Support

    When the call came in last fall to Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, they were presented with an interesting project – to assist with member support following the liquidation of Spokane, Washington-based The Union Credit Union (TUCU) and subsequent assimilation of its members into Alaska USA FCU (Anchorage, AK) and Numerica…

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  • CUSO Compliance Service Adds Three New Clients

    Xtend, Inc., a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, announced recently that it had added three new credit union partners to its list of compliance monitoring clients during the past month.  The CUSO began providing support services for Northwest Consumers FCU (Traverse City, MI; $12.5M; 2K members), WV United FCU (Charleston, WV; $23M; 4,400 members)…

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  • Shared Branching Network Adds New Tools

    Xtend, Inc. a multi-owned cooperative CUSO based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, announced that the ninety-four (94) credit unions in its shared branching network have recently implemented new member authentication procedures in an effort to further protect privacy when their members perform transactions at partner branches.

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  • Xtend Delivers 3M Electronic Messages in 2010

    Xtend, Inc. a multi-owned cooperative CUSO based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reports that electronic communication delivered to members through its Member Reach service reached an all-time high last year.  During 2010, the CUSO reports that it generated a comb­­ined total of more than three million email and online banking messages to credit union members.

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