BECU

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  BECU’s Gaming App for Teens Is a Big Hit

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  June 11, 2012

  BECU is stirring up competition among local high school students with a new pilot program: an educational app that contains three financial literacy games.

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  Planting Awareness Seeds Helps Marketing Efforts Grow

  By Myriam DiGiovanni  |  May 7, 2012

  A common thread among this year’s CUNA Diamond Award Winners has been their ability to dig deep to identify and address challenges unique to their organizations.

• Supplementing the Supplemental Capital Effort

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  March 25, 2012

  Over the last couple of years, a small coalition of credit unions has built up the background and the foot soldiers to help maneuver supplemental capital legislation through Congress.

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  BECU's Oakland Said He Might Consider NCUA Board

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  March 14, 2012

  Outgoing BECU President/CEO Gary Oakland said he might be interested in a spot on the NCUA Board.

• ZashPay Absorbed by Popmoney

  By Marc Rapport  |  March 11, 2012

  The ZashPay person-to-person payment network launched by Fiserv Inc. in 2009 will be absorbed by the Popmoney network that Fiserv bought last year with its acquisition of CashEdge.

• BECU Near $10 Billion Mark

  By Claude R. Marx  |  February 15, 2012

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may have a fourth credit union to directly examine next year.

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  CO-OP Shifts to Real-Time Fraud Monitoring

  By Marc Rapport  |  January 31, 2012

  Financial transactions are increasingly happening in real time and so are the fraud attacks that naturally follow. To help fight that, CO-OP Financial Services is working this year to continue to move several hundred client credit unions to the real-time version of the widely used Falcon Fraud Manager neural network service...

• NASCUS Lauds Oakland Tenure at BECU, Welcomes Porter

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  December 21, 2011

  Management switch at two large West Coast credit unions drew tributes and messages of support from NASCUS.

• Return to Seattle Roots Figured in Porter Switch

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  December 21, 2011

  Benson Porter said the chance to return to his native Seattle was a major factor in his decision to leave First Tech.

• First Tech CEO Heads to BECU

  By Marc Rapport  |  December 20, 2011

  First Technology Credit Union CEO Benson Porter in California and Oregon has been named president/CEO of $9.7 billion BECU in Washington state.