Greg Smith, CEO of CU*NorthWest, was recognized by the Southern California Credit Union Alliance (SCCUA) as the recipient of the Collaborator of the Year award at the 2016 SCCUA Dinner With Friends held in November in Las Vegas, Nevada, in conjunction with the CA/NV Leagues REACH Conference. Greg is the third winner following Bill Birnie,…
For the first time ever, CU*Answers Network Services participated in overlapping production activations of redundant core data processing solutions for both CU*Answers and Site-Four, a technology CUSO which hosts core production services for the CU*NorthWest and CU*SOUTH CUSOs. These events involved the activation of high-availability data centers and the rollover of production processing between centers…
Brewery Credit Union, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has chosen CU*Answers Network Services (CNS) as their managed technology partner, utilizing the Complete Care management services offering. The Complete Care service is specifically focused on the unique needs of credit unions and encompasses both day to day operational and strategic IT needs into a single unified technology…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, has completed an ongoing initiative to provide automated processing across the cuasterisk.com partner network. The completion of this project lays the groundwork for other upcoming projects including automated year-end processing and collaborative processing. According to OpsEngine Business Development Manager Jeff Miller, the partnership-wide automation capability “has built a…
CU*NorthWest is pleased to announce that the 2017 Education Catalog is complete and has been mailed to its clients. CU*NorthWest delivers the catalog prior to the beginning of each calendar year in an effort to give clients time to design their own annual training programs based on the offerings available. The CUSO offers hundreds of…
CU*NorthWest, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, announced today that Spokane Media Federal Credit Union and Spokane Firefighters Credit Union in Spokane, Washington, have extended their core processing contracts with CU*NorthWest. Both credit unions are founding members of the cooperatively-owned CUSO. Spokane Media FCU President & CEO Debie Keesee stated: “As an original owner, Spokane…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, recently completed improvements to its nightly processing cycle. This marks the completion of a series of changes, including revised purges and stand-in improvements that have been ongoing for several months. “These changes result in night-cycle processing times that are close to one tenth the time they required formerly,”…
CU*NorthWest, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, announced today that Spokane Firefighters Credit Union in Spokane, Washington has extended their core data processing contract with CU*NorthWest. Spokane Firefighters is one of the founding credit unions of the cooperative CUSO, CU*NorthWest. CEO, Todd Powell said: “Although our credit union was a founding member of the CU*NorthWest…
CU*NorthWest, the Liberty Lake, Washington-based cooperative CUSO, announced that it has added a new credit union owner. The latest investor is Northern Colorado Credit Union, located in Greeley, Colorado with $50.8M assets and 3.5K members. “Our cooperative business model allows for an equal opportunity for ownership and voice, irrespective of member or asset size,” said…
CU*NorthWest, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington announced that Sears Spokane Employees Federal Credit Union located in Spokane, Washington, has completed their conversion to CU*NorthWest. CEO, Mark Smith said: “I feel that in partnering with CU*NorthWest we have gained a true partner that is just as dedicated to the success…