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HAKENSACK, N.J. - Fed up with identity theft, a recent Privacy & American Business (P&AB) survey finds that more consumers are proactively involved in fighting back. According to the survey, of the 80% who say they are concerned about their consumer privacy today, some 33.4 million have taken steps to...

WASHINGTON-CUNA suggested some admittedly burdensome software changes so all Automated Clearinghouse users could continue to use Social Security Numbers instead of eliminating or masking their usage as NACHA has proposed. CUNA Associate General Counsel Mary Dunn and Senior Regulatory Counsel Catherine Orr explained in the organization's official comment letter that...

WASHINGTON-CUNA Chief Economist Bill Hampel took on American Bankers Association Senior Economist Keith Leggett one-on-one regarding credit unions' tax-exempt status before the National Council of State Legislatures in San Francisco last week. On July 22, Hampel outlined four simple reasons for the state lawmakers why credit unions are exempt from...

CALABASAS, Calif. - Fiserv and Digital Insight have expanded on their strategic alliance. The two firms renewed their alliance for DI's home banking product, AXIS Internet Banking, to be an authorized product for six Fiserv credit union data processing subsidiaries (previously it was four). The companies made no mention of...

Mike Welch's column in the June 4th issue, "The Number of Questions Keeps Increasing" was on the mark. Coming from the banking side, it is hard for me to understand how credit unions can sit back and allow banks to chip away at our cause and our integrity. Banks really...

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-More than 12.5 million potential members in underserved areas have been added to credit unions' fields of membership through Access Across America so far this year, according to NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar. The agency's mid-year statistics show that through June 30, 2003, 90 federal credit unions in 31 states...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Connex Credit Union has a new name and a new core computer system. The former Southern New England FCU was the first Summit Information Systems client to undergo the core processor's conversion from the venerable HPe3000 (MPE/ix-based) platform to the UNIX-based HP9000 platform. "The migration was...

MIRAMAR, Fla. - As if the World Wide Web wasn't tangled enough, credit unions have to guard against cyber squatters who are just waiting to pounce on their domain names. Cyber squatters essentially pick up Web sites of companies using different top level domains. For example, the credit union may...