This week CU*Answers will be hosting its quarterly University Week, during which the data processor will condense into just one week its most timely and relevant courses. Clients will be able to attend the courses right from their own credit union as all University Week courses will be offered online via webinar. University Weeks are…
CU*Answers, the West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, offers a free fraud detection service that detects potential fraudulent activity over all scheduled bill pay transactions. FraudNet™ is offered through Fiserv, one of CU*Answers’ bill pay vendors, and detects suspicious activity prior to it happening and stops the transaction before it is scheduled to post. “In December, FraudNet…
Payveris™, a next generation online and mobile digital payments company, and West Michigan-based credit union-owned cooperative, CU*Answers, have announced a working partnership to provide a fully integrated online banking and payments experience to their client credit unions and their members. Payveris offers a full range of bill payment, money movement and interbank transfer solutions which…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a CUSO headquartered in Yankton, South Dakota, recently completed a full system rollover to its newly established High Availability and Disaster Recovery center in Kentwood, Michigan. This 36-hour rollover exercise was a planned event to test the ability of offering full services from the newly established disaster recovery…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a member of the cuasterisk.com network of CUSOs, completed a 72-hour time frame of running the facility completely on the backup generator. This test was designed to simulate full normal utility power loss from the data center’s energy service provider. The 150KW, 336 gallon, diesel fueled, 3-phase generator…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a venture of the cuasterisk.com network of CUSOs, recently completed the physical and virtual move of its High Availability/Disaster Recovery infrastructure to the CU*Answers facility located in Kentwood, Michigan. Tim Kenney, Site-Four CIO said, “This important move allows Site-Four to take advantage of the physical security, redundancy, and…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a Yankton, South Dakota-based CUSO, is happy to announce that Shur-Co®, LLC has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. This three-year collocation agreement will allow Shur-Co to house their advanced backup solution in Site-Four’s state of the art facility in Yankton, South Dakota. Shur-Co is the…
Yankton, SD – January 6, 2015 Site-Four, a CUSO member of the cuasterisk.com network, is happy to announce that CU*Answers, a credit union core data processor, has chosen Site-Four’s facility for their disaster recovery solution. The project is estimated to be completed by the end of 2016. This relationship will allow CU*Answers to further extend…
CU*Answers Network Services has organized and launched a new peer networking group for credit union technology professionals on the CU*BASE® core platform known as the CUSO Technology Users Group. The group exists to provide an open forum for the discussion and research of technology topics facing senior tech leaders in the credit union industry. The…
At its December board meeting, the Board of Directors for Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, approved a facility expansion project that would add 20% more space for the Xtension Contact Center. The project, which is expected to be completed by the end of January 2015, allows the CUSO to add more…