At its annual 2014 Leadership Conference, June 25-27, CU*NorthWest announced the winner of the Best Completed Video contest. The winning contributors, all employees of credit unions on the CU*BASE core processing platform, won $1,500 for their credit union. The theme for this year’s contest was “Walking in the Members’ Shoes.” The attendees at the Leadership…
CU*Northwest held their fifth annual Leadership conference June 25-26 at Northern Quest Resort in Airway Heights, WA. The event began with an open CU*NorthWest board meeting and welcome cocktail reception, then moved to additional days of interactive discussions and executive briefings for CEOs and senior managers of CU*NorthWest client credit unions. The event also incorporated…
eDOC Innovations, a leading provider of core image processing solutions, is excited to announce that Washington Community Credit Union, based in Washington, PA, has joined eDOC Innovations as a new CUSO owner. Bret Weekes, President and CEO of eDOC Innovations comments, “We believe in the Buy CUSO business model, need it, build it, use it…
Newark Firemen FCU (NFFCU) has completed their conversion to the CU*BASE GOLD core platform with CU*SOUTH. With the lights of Manhattan shining across the Passaic River, Newark Firemen FCU serves over 2,100 members with $18M in assets. Organized in 1940, NFFCU was chartered to serve the firefighters of the City of Newark, as well as…
CU*NorthWest and its board of directors approved and distributed a dividend to its stockholders during the stockholder Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the 2014 Leadership Conference at Northern Quest Resort on June 25th. This is the third consecutive year that the CU*NorthWest’s board of directors has declared a dividend and also maintained steady stock…
CU*NorthWest, the Liberty Lake, Washington-based cooperative CUSO announced that it has added a new credit union owner. The latest investor is Family First Federal Credit Union, a 2,200 member CU located in Great Falls, Montana. Curtis Heyamoto, Business Development said, “Family First FCU marks the 20th owner at CU*NorthWest. Every credit union processing with CU*NorthWest…
In an major effort to push credit unions, vendors, and third parties to develop some classic models for analyzing and designing a new future for compliance execution, CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative is sponsoring two contests that offer to pay a total of $10,000 to make it happen. “The time to complain about the…
West Michigan-based core processor, CU*Answers, announced a 23% growth in the number of mortgage application and processing sites through Accenture/Mortgage Cadence’ Loan Fulfilment Center. Since 2006, CU*Answers has been a value added reseller of the first cloud-based, inclusive mortgage lending solution to the credit union industry offered by Accenture/Mortgage Cadence, formerly Prime Alliance Solutions, Inc.…
CU*Answers, Inc., a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, recently completed a test of its ability to add immediate computing power to support users of the CUSO’s online CU*BASE® core data processing environment. During the test, additional CPU and memory resources were non-disruptively activated from a stand-by to live state and the process was documented as…
In 2011, AuditLink, the audit and compliance division of CU*Answers, launched an auditing service for clients using the CU*BASE® core system. Since every financial institution is required to conduct an annual Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and an Automated Clearing House (ACH) audit, CU*Answers tapped the knowledge of Jim Vilker, a NAFCU Certified Compliance Specialist (NCCO)…