CU*Answers, the 100% owned cooperative CUSO was busy hosting many events that concluded the month of March. Events included the inaugural session of CFO Strategies lead by the CUSO’s CFO, Bob Frizzle, the Accounting Top Ten, and the Pricing Focus Group. The busy month was then concluded with the CU*Answers Board Meeting. Throughout the week
On April 8, 2014, CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned CUSO, presented a complimentary web-based Education Express course for credit unions on building a “Culture of Continuity” to enhance preparedness and response to potential business disruptions. “The desired culture of continuity”, states Jim Lawrence, CBCP, Manager of Disaster Recovery and Business Resumption Services at CU*Answers, “is
CU*Answers, a credit union owned cooperative CUSO, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, continues to release new mobile web banking features with their upcoming 14.0 release of its core processing platform, CU*BASE® in May. It’s Me 247 Mobile Web Banking is a free offering to credit unions on the CU*BASE platform. Giving members a way to
CU*Answers, in collaboration with Notre Dame Federal Credit Union, launched in beta It’s My BIZ, the first online banking tool specifically designed for business banking. Providing many of the personal online banking features, but with multiple log-on security and configurable access permissions is our first step with this exciting product offering. Planned for the future
CU*Answers, a core processing CUSO, allocates six programming team members to solely focus on trending analytics ‘dashboards’, delivered through quick access. These dashboards not only provide the numbers, but supply colorful graphs, and export to PDF documents for board and other presentations. Using data already archived, this team provides dashboards designed with valuable trending and
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, cooperative CUSO exhibited at the 84th Illinois Credit Union League Annual Convention held April 3-5, 2014. Many interested credit unions stopped by the CUSO’s booth to learn more about CU*BASE®, the robust, credit union-developed data processing software to see it in action. The event concluded with a door prize drawing
CU*Answers, a 100% credit union-owned cooperative CUSO, has announced that over 140 credit union CEOs nationally have already joined the CU*Answers “Of Course!” website to share policies and ideas, ask questions, and brainstorm new ways to run their business. A CU*Answers spokesperson said “Of Course!” represents a private online community for CEOs utilizing a CU*BASE®
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, announced that it had recently added another credit union owner. This newest investor is Lakes Community Credit Union, located in Lake Orion, MI ($80M and 9,000 members). Scott Page, CU*Answers EVP said, “Lakes Community Credit Union marks the 122nd CU*Answers owner, with four new owners already added in
CU*Answers announced that its next disaster recovery test for its CU*BASE® data processing system is scheduled for May 20-22. The credit union-owned CUSO added that recovery teams will be divided between the CU*Answers secondary datacenter located in Muskegon, Michigan and the IBM BCRS hot-site facility in Sterling Forest, New York. A unique aspect to its
For Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, its newest client has become its largest. Indiana-based Notre Dame FCU (57,000 members; $464M in assets) began utilizing the CUSO’s call center, e-communication and compliance monitoring services in conjunction with its April 1st core data processing conversion. NDFCU migrated to the CU*BASE® data processing suite