The $194 million MidUSA Credit Union in Middletown, Ohio, hasconverted to the CU*BASE core processing platform from CU*Answersin Grand Rapids, Mich., the CUSO said.

The 17,900-member MidUSA will be running through a hosted SaaSenvironment and also will be using the Michigan CUSO's onlinebanking, e-statements, alerts and notices software as well asmobile Web and text banking and bill pay, and partner eDOCInnovations for document imaging, CU*Answers said.

There now are more than 200 credit unions in 25 states using the CU*BASE system, theCUSO said, including five conversions so far this year.

According to the Technology Survey from Callahan &Associates, the Ohio credit union had been on a Fiserv DataSafeplatform and was using Intuit Financial Services for onlinebanking, FIS for bill pay and ESP for e-statements.

CU*Answers also said it has added three more shareholdingowners, bringing the total to 110. They are the $56 millionClarkston Brandon Community CU in Clarkston, Mich.; the $6 millionMuskegon Consumers Power Employees CU in Muskegon, Mich., and the$48 million Northern Hills FCU in Sturgis, S.D.

Credit union clients can currently become owners for $180,000and the CUSO has returned more than $3 million in dividends andinterest in the past two years, said its executive vice president,Scott Page.

Six new owners have been added since its current fiscal yearbegan in October, the CUSO said.