On April 8, 2014, CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned CUSO, presented a complimentary web-based Education Express course for credit unions on building a “Culture of Continuity” to enhance preparedness and response to potential business disruptions. “The desired culture of continuity”, states Jim Lawrence, CBCP, Manager of Disaster Recovery and Business Resumption Services at CU*Answers, “is…
CU*Answers, a credit union owned cooperative CUSO, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, continues to release new mobile web banking features with their upcoming 14.0 release of its core processing platform, CU*BASE® in May. It’s Me 247 Mobile Web Banking is a free offering to credit unions on the CU*BASE platform. Giving members a way to…
CU*Answers, in collaboration with Notre Dame Federal Credit Union, launched in beta It’s My BIZ, the first online banking tool specifically designed for business banking. Providing many of the personal online banking features, but with multiple log-on security and configurable access permissions is our first step with this exciting product offering. Planned for the future…
CU*Answers, a core processing CUSO, allocates six programming team members to solely focus on trending analytics ‘dashboards’, delivered through quick access. These dashboards not only provide the numbers, but supply colorful graphs, and export to PDF documents for board and other presentations. Using data already archived, this team provides dashboards designed with valuable trending and…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, cooperative CUSO exhibited at the 84th Illinois Credit Union League Annual Convention held April 3-5, 2014. Many interested credit unions stopped by the CUSO’s booth to learn more about CU*BASE®, the robust, credit union-developed data processing software to see it in action. The event concluded with a door prize drawing…
CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, has announced that over 140 credit union CEOs nationally have already joined the CU*Answers “Of Course!” website to share policies and ideas, ask questions, and brainstorm new ways to run their business. A CU*Answers spokesperson said “Of Course!” represents a private online community for CEOs utilizing a CU*BASE®…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, announced that it had recently added another credit union owner. This newest investor is Lakes Community Credit Union, located in Lake Orion, MI ($80M and 9,000 members). Scott Page, CU*Answers EVP said, “Lakes Community Credit Union marks the 122nd CU*Answers owner, with four new owners already added in…
CU*Answers announced that its next disaster recovery test for its CU*BASE® data processing system is scheduled for May 20-22. The credit union-owned CUSO added that recovery teams will be divided between the CU*Answers secondary datacenter located in Muskegon, Michigan and the IBM BCRS hot-site facility in Sterling Forest, New York. A unique aspect to its…
It may be the end of tax season, but it is just a coincidence that April is also the month CU*Answers has chosen to highlight several key auditing resources. What started with the promotion of the “My Favorite Auditing and Compliance Dashboards” brochure grew into an entire month focusing on auditing-related education tools. Jim Vilker,…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned core processing CUSO, is anticipating in excess of 50,000 pulls in the upcoming year with one of its newest integrations with ChexSystem’s Qualifile™ solution. This comprehensive solution helps credit unions automate and streamline processes that detect and prevent new types of fraudulent activity, track and maintain regulatory updates and manage…