At their recent Leadership Conference, CU*Answers announced the winners of two annual awards. Patrick Basler, CEO of First Financial Credit Union in Chicago, Illinois was presented with the Robert H. Mackay Leadership award and the Spirit of CU*Answers award was presented to Services Center Federal Credit Union in Yankton, South Dakota. The Robert H. Mackay…
CU*Answers, a credit union service organization and data processor for over 200 credit unions nationwide, now offers its credit union clients another way to connect to CU*BASE®, its core data processing software. Now clients not only have the option of connecting to CU*BASE via the traditional private line connection (MPLS), but they also have the…
CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned CUSO, held their 2013 Annual Leadership Conference and Stockholders Meeting on June 19th at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The event brought together credit union leadership from across the country for a briefing on the organization’s overall direction and major projects in the works for the coming…
Today marked the completion of a major technology upgrade at the CU*Answers 44th Street Production Center in Kentwood, Michigan. The Grand Rapids-based CUSO migrated its primary production system overnight to a new server, an IBM i POWER 7 model 770s and migrated to a new IBM operating system in the process (IBM OS 7.1). The…
CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned Cooperative, announced today that two credit union CEOs had been elected by their peers to serve a three-year term on the CUSO’s Board of Directors. Jeff Jorgensen (incumbent), CEO of Sioux Empire Federal CU in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Linda Bodie, CEO of Element Federal Credit Union in Charleston,…
The 100% owned CUSO hosted their 22nd Annual Golf Outing at Saskatoon Golf Course in Alto, MI on June 20, 2013. This event concluded the CUSO’s week long events during their Leadership Week. The Leadership Conference ran from June 18-20, 2013. The week’s events began at the CUSO’s 28th Street location with a tour of…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, announced at its 2013 Leadership Conference the winners of its 6th Annual Video contests for Best Video Idea, Best 30 Second Spot Idea, and Best Completed Video. The winning contributors, all employees of credit unions on the CU*BASE® core processing platform, each won $1,500 for their credit union.…
CU*Answers announced today that this weekend they will be installing a new IBM i unit for their Grand Rapids service bureau. A similar unit will be installed at the high availability site in Muskegon during July. “These new systems have elastic capabilities that allow us to increase capacity on-demand as we expand our online community,…
CU*Answers, the West Michigan-based core data processor, announced that it has completed implementation of CU*BASE® GOLD Automated Operations Toolkit for Fox Communities Credit Union (Appleton, WI). Fox Communties Credit Union is the fourth self-processing partner to adopt the automation toolkit since its recent release in late 2012. “The Automated Operations Toolkit has proven to be…
West Michigan-based data processor, CU*Answers, recently announced its plans to invigorate programs specifically designed for the credit union’s management staff. Management Dashboard Tools on the core platform CU*BASE® include a new series of dashboard reports which credit union management teams will be able to use for forecasting and data analytics. A CU*Answers spokesperson stated, “The…