With more and more credit unions expanding their loan participation portfolios, CU*Answers is staying ahead of the game with a series of projects that improve the reporting and maintenance of these loans. Enhancements are in the works to expand reporting of open-end loans and improve the month end investor settlement process. Charlie Rogers, account executive
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned cooperative, recently announced the winner of its 2018 e‑statement contest and is now starting the 3rd quarter debit card contest. The Q3 contest runs July 1 – August 31, 2018. Contests are run quarterly for a two-month period as a way of gathering member email addresses or increasing enrollment in
The Organizational Resource Development (ORD) team at CU*Answers has announced a new health and wellness program to encourage a healthy lifestyle for its employees. The PEAK program, which stands for Participation – Exercise – Activities – Knowledge, will offer a series of classes, fun activities and local YMCA discounts to help staff increase their overall
The Organizational Resource Development (ORD) team at CU*Answers has announced the continuation of a program that allows employees to learn RPG programming at practically no cost. Once again this fall, CU*Answers will team with Muskegon Community College (MCC) to offer a series of four online classes in RPG (Report Program Generator) programming, which is one
The West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, CU*Answers is pleased to announce that as of April 2018, Monica Fulgenzi, formerly with their SettleMINT team has joined the Client Services and Education team. In addition, as of May 2018, Jason Reed, formerly with their Quality Control team has also joined the Client Services and Education team. Laura Welch-Vilker,
Companies want their marketing designs to tell stories about their brand, mission and accomplishments. In Xtend’s case, those stories needed a few “facelifts”. Xtend launched its new branding with new graphics, logos, print marketing, web pages, banners, business cards and much more all to achieve more brand cohesion and give the West Michigan CUSO an
Xtend, a Grand Rapids-based CUSO, has announced its semi-annual Xtend Sales and Marketing Roundtable dates of August 6 & 7, 2018, which attracts marketing and sales professionals across the country. The event allows credit unions to participate in an intimate conversation with their peers, sharing best practices for marketing initiatives. The group discusses trends in
Xtend, Inc., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based multi-owned cooperative CUSO, announced that it has added another credit union owner. $113M Affinity Credit Union, located in Des Moines, IA, purchased an ownership block of 200 shares to become the CUSO’s eighty-second owner. Xtend Board Chairman Mark Richter commented: “The board is pleased to welcome Affinity Credit Union
The CU*Answers Conversion team converted 2,360 members for YS Federal Credit Union to the data processor’s CU*BASE® platform on May 1st, 2018. YS Federal, located in Yellow Springs, OH converted from the RCO platform.
eDOC Innovations took to the roads of Vermont during the first week of May to make its local community greener and cleaner. Vermont’s annual Green Up initiative draws 20,000 volunteers each year to clean up litter from 13,000 miles of Vermont roadside. It is the largest statewide volunteer event in Vermont and the only statewide