CU*Answers, a 100% credit union owned CUSO, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, will be sponsoring a hole at the Sioux Valley Chapter of Credit Unions Annual Charity Golf Tournament taking place at Bakker Crossings Golf Course on Thursday, June 23rd. CU*Answers believes in supporting the Chapters that their credit unions are a part of. Credit…
If tomorrow there were no credit unions and you could start all over, what would you do differently when rebuilding the industry from the ground up? How would you redefine credit unions, branches, board members, and owners? How would you change the reality to speak to today? Credit unions will have a chance to win…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, cooperative CUSO, is preparing for the conversion of Shoreline Credit Union (10,000 members and $91 million in assets) to the CU*Answers CU*BASE® core data processing system. The CU*Answers programming team has been working on the conversion files to convert the data and the staff at Shoreline Credit Union is currently…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, cooperative CUSO, recently announced its first High Level Overview (HLO) demo for 2016 will be held in Minnesota. This is a four hour discussion of the CU*Answers CUSO and demo of the various components that are included in their core product, CU*BASE®. In addition to the robust core system, the…
West Michigan-based core data processor, CU*Answers, announced that University of Toledo Federal Credit Union successfully converted to the CU*BASE data processing system in April. The credit union represents 6,500 members and $68.3 million in assets. University of Toledo FCU was able to offer its members new and improved services through CU*Answers including It’s Me 247…
CU*Answers is holding its second annual Data Investment Symposium this week on April 27, 2016 at its Grand Rapids corporate headquarters. The Data Investment Symposium is a focus group event to brainstorm on investments the CUSO should be making with its comprehensive set of data analytics and dashboards already incorporated within the enterprise CU*BASE® processing…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, data processing CUSO announced it hosted its monthly Tricks of the Trade webinar for the month of April. This month’s session reviewed several documents available in the CU*Answers Risk Assessment Center including the It’s Me 247 Online Banking risk assessment product feature matrix. The 30-minute session gave an overview of…
Cooperative CUSO CU*Answers recently offered a free, interactive web course regarding Business Continuity Management (BCM) and planning. It included an overview of the five-phased approach utilized from start to finish for the development and implementation of an effective and efficient BCM program based on industry best practices, scalable for all organizations. The course was presented…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, is working closely with technicians at IBM to prepare for the migration of its online core processing servers to IBM’s latest POWER8 technology later this year. Currently, CU*Answers supports nearly two hundred online credit unions on an IBM POWER7 foundation. According to Scott Collins, the liaison to IBM…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, announced that it recently migrated its core development environment to the latest IBM POWER8 server technology. The CUSO utilizes the POWER8 as its primary development engine for the CU*BASE® core data processing suite that is used by more than 250 credit unions nationally. Scott Collins, the liaison to…