WASHINGTON - Business services, Check 21 and courtesy pay programs are among the key topics that core technology vendors were hearing from clients about at the CUNA GAC in Washington. Meanwhile, consolidation among credit unions as well as the shift to community charters is having as much effect on the...

WASHINGTON - Did you hear about the fellow who went into a New York City Kinko's, plugged a simple device into the back of a public computer and stole the user names and passwords of hundreds of online bankers? Jim Blake has and he finds it scary. Blake, president and...

HELENA, Mont. - Some good, old-fashioned brainstorming has resulted in the small credit unions of the Big Sky Country coming up with a way to affordably stake their claim on the World Wide Web. Through a new service from the Montana Credit Union Network called EzCU.net, they're now paying $500...

WESTLAKE, Ohio - As a non-profit member cooperative, a credit union ought to be a place where people know how to work together. But everyone can use a little help. That's the idea behind Connections Online, a Web-based collaboration and management software suite that helps credit union staffers track projects,...

PHOENIX - With a little tweaking, Arizona Federal Credit Union has taken a sophisticated job-scheduling application and customized it to allow its IT staff to begin to monitor and control the complex goings-on within the CU's burgeoning IT infrastructure in ways never before possible. The $1.2 billion CU has just...

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Financial institutions in the United States plan to invest more strongly in technology, and they are now favoring tech spending with strategic potential over spending to save short-term costs, according to a new survey. Conducted this past summer by TowerGroup for the American Bankers Association and TowerGroup,...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - Member Mortgage Services Ltd. is now offering a new Web-based mortgage lending software package that automates the process for members while giving credit unions more options for financing the loan, the company said. The solution is called 24-7 Mortgage Online and automates the vast majority of...

BOSTON - No one expects credit unions to spend particularly freely on technology this year, and especially not in a crowded space like Internet banking. So, a leading analyst says, vendors of Internet solutions to credit unions and banks are trying to beat a stagnant market by stretching to meet...