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CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, has been working with Rhinelander, Wisconsin-based Ripco Credit Union to prepare for a technology upgrade for their high availability server, with an anticipated project completion and final rollover in early January. The credit union will be deploying a new IBM POWER9 server to act as a backup for…
For the second year in a row, CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, sponsored the Sam Saplot Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament held at the Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course located at the Kaneohe Marines Corps base on Oahu. The tournament, which raises money for credit union professionals to participate in Western CUNA Management School programs,…
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO CU*Answers is working closely with Falmouth, Maine-based Cumberland County Federal Credit Union to prepare for the deployment of new IBM POWER9 core servers in early January. The servers will be deployed at the credit union’s main data center in Falmouth, and also at their disaster recovery data center at Site-Four…
CU*Answers Network Services (CNS) is recently announced that Allegius Credit Union, in Burns Harbor, Indiana will be joining over 100 other credit unions managed by CNS Complete Care. “We’re very happy to win the business and partner with Allegius Credit Union on their technology initiatives,” said Matt Sawtell, CU*Answers VP of Managed Technology Services. “Through…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, is in the process of replacing its primary development server environment with a state of the art POWER9 processor from IBM. Because of the complex environment that the CUSO has deployed for its current IBM platform, they have engaged systems engineers from IBM to help develop the final…
Asterisk Intelligence, a data analytics team at CU*Answers, successfully concluded hosting a data analytics educational event named Asterisk Intelligence Week. The 4-day event is open to users of CU*Answers’ CU*BASE® core processing software and was attended by 30 individuals from credit unions across the United States. All sessions were free and included a mixture of…
CU*Answers recently announced the publishing of its Fall 2019 API Catalog. API development represents an important process to continually enhancing CU*Answers’ capabilities to remain flexible for providing data in a streamlined, secure manner. This is not only for the tools the cooperative CUSO develops, but provides a gateway to allow others to develop products that…
The CU*Answers SettleMINT EFT team converted 2,491 credit card loans for Cincinnati Ohio Police CU to the CU*BASE online credit card platform. Cincinnati Ohio Police Credit Union, located in Cincinnati, OH, brought their credit card portfolio in-house. “Credit unions moving to the online credit card platform typically see a 35-45% overall savings and it allows…
EmpireONE Federal Credit Union, in West Seneca, NY, recently launched a new website. The new design is responsive and has many great features such as featured rates, an alert bar, easy contact form, and integrated site search. This new website greatly improves member experience by providing a modern website that will work on any device…