On January 16, 2022, CU*Answers coordinated a live test of an in-house credit union’s high availability strategy by conducting a rollover for core processing services from the production data center outside of Portland, Maine, to the secondary data center located more 1,500 miles away in Yankton, South Dakota. Core processing data is replicated in real…
The West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, CU*Answers, recently announced that from October through December 2021, 170 courses were coordinated and taught by the Client Services and Education team. Lani Lowing, Education Team Lead added that an additional 89 courses were coordinated for various teams within the organization for a total of 259 classes with 2,320 attendees.…
Asterisk Intelligence, a data analytics team at CU*Answers, has partnered with CU*SOUTH to provide Data Fact email services to the Alabama-based cooperative. “Data Facts” are an outbound email program designed to increase awareness of data driven tools, tactics, and approaches which are available within CU*Answers’ suite of applications. CU*Answers’ Business Intelligence Analysts send Data Fact…
Xtend Communications launched a new banner management service for Member Reach clients on January 10th. Xtend has been looking into providing a service to replace eInfo after it was discontinued due to the It’s Me 247 online banking update. Banner management provides clients with the ability to reach their members through their It’s Me 247…
CU*Answers has reached a new milestone in 2021 for updating member’s credit scores in CU*BASE. The Lender*VP Team updated over 2.2 million soft credit scores during the year with over 75 credit unions participating in the program. Credit score analysis continues to be a focus of development in CU*BASE® allowing credit unions to more effectively…
CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, data processing CUSO, recently determined the sixth month average send rate for Client News emails sent from July 1 through December 31, 2021. In total, CU*Answers sent out 354, an increase of 6 from the 348 Client News items sent out during the same time frame in 2020. August saw…
The desire to learn via hands-on practice was strong last year. CU*Answers launched three Custom Training Editions (CTEs) for credit unions in 2021. These additions were not done in vain, as clients new and old alike utilized their CTEs frequently, accessing more than 140,000 tools and performing more than 26,000 transactions total. A CTE copies…
CU*Answers, the West-Michigan based cooperative CUSO, just finished hosting their third Year End Processing Review Session for 2021. Stephanie Raven Client Services Team Lead said, “We have had over fifty attendees in each session; I feel very confident going into the 2022 tax season that credit unions will be prepared.” The CU*Answers team also participated…
CU*Answers, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based cooperative CUSO, recently published its 2022 Business Plan that it was budgeting for additional investment in its Servicer Edition product suite. The suite is built upon the foundation of the CUSO’s tremendously successful CU*BASE core data processing technology and is specifically tailored for CUSOs or other businesses that provide customer…
West Michigan-based cooperative CUSO CU*Answers is pleased to announce the Client Services and Education Team has added another client services representative to the team, AJ Schalk. With prior business experience, AJ Schalk understands the demands of an organization like CU*Answers. He both has noticed a parallel between CU*Answers and other credit unions since he started…