Penn State FCU Becomes First UPost Client Through Joint eCU, Jack Henry Market Pact HARRISBURG, Pa. -- eCU Technologies has signed the first credit union client to its UPost online honor deposit posting service through the tech CUSO's marketing pact with Jack Henry & Associates. Penn State Federal Credit Union in State College has become the 22nd user of the service overall and the $88 million CU plans to begin offering it to its 15,600 members by the end of the year. "A large part of our membership is through the university and our members do move throughout the country so this service will definitely help in the area of retention," says Dan Lentz, the CU's vice president of information technology. He also cites the solution's integration with the credit union's Symitar core platform. Symitar is a Jack Henry operation. UPost allows credit union members to make electronic deposits online, while gaining immediate access to their funds. The actual deposit is then mailed within a predetermined amount of time. eCU Technologies (www.ecutechnologies.com) is a tech CUSO of $2.4 billion Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union. Passageways Awarded CUNA Tech Panel's Best of Show Award at BAI 2006

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Passageways, a provider of Intranet portals to credit unions, was the winner of the CUNA Technology Council Best of Show Award during the recent 2006 BAI Retail Delivery Conference and Expo in Las Vegas.

The award was the third industry plaudit the company has won since it was launched as a tech CUSO of Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union in 2003. Passageways was chosen from among 368 exhibitors at the BAI show. Last year's winner was Cisco Systems.

The 400-plus members of the CUNA Technology Council have presented the annual award for the past six years to the BAI exhibitor who "demonstrates a commitment to delivering technology that will further the growth of products and services in the credit union marketplace."

Passageways says it now serves 85 credit unions and five community banks and has recently launched a consulting service in addition to its modularized intranet collaborative management and knowledge solutions. Cyveillance Anti-Phishing Solution Picked by NIH FCU, Schools Financial ROCKVILLE, Md. -- National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union has chosen another suburban Washington organization--Cyveillance Inc.--to help thwart phishing attacks. NIH FCU joins $1.2 billion Schools Financial Credit Union in Sacramento, Calif, as Cyveillance's most recent credit union clients. Cyveillance is an Arlington, Va.-based company that identifies phishing attacks in real time and provides take-down services. The company says its client list includes more than three-fourths of the Fortune 500 companies in financial services, pharmaceutical, energy, and technology industries. "NIH FCU has always had measures in place to secure member data within our own perimeters. However, with phishing attacks targeting members outside our secure network, internal protection alone is no longer enough," says John Szeglin, IT manager at $343 million NIH FCU. Wescom Resources Group Signs NASA FCU to Online Banking Service UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Wescom Resources Group reached across the country to sign its latest customer. NASA Federal Credit Union in suburban Washington has chosen WRG's online banking service to serve its far-flung membership base of 66,000. The $768 million credit union cited integration and customization for its choice of WRG's solution from a field of six competitors. "We wanted to make sure that our products could seamlessly integrate with WRG's online banking platform and at the same time could also provide options for other solutions such as load balancing and disaster recovery," says Tim Burch, vice president of technology services at NASA FCU. The tech CUSO (www.wescomresources.com) of $3.5 billion Wescom Credit Union in Pasadena, Calif., now has more than 75 customers using its service bureau, ATM deposit balancing, item processing, home banking, bill pay, e-statement and other offerings. ATLANTA -- Harland Financial Solutions says it has signed three new clients to the list of more than 200 credit unions using its UltraData Enterprise platform in an outsourced environment. They include $84 million I.L.W.U. Credit Union in Wilmington, Calif., $120 million Pacific Resource Credit Union in Los Angeles and $54 million Tacoma Longshoremen Credit Union in Tacoma, Wash. I.L.W.U. CU will own its own hardware and use the dedicated hosting option at Harland's service center in Des Moines, Iowa, the same center that will serve the other two credit unions as a service bureau. All three credit unions are currently clients of Fiserv units, according to NCUA's Web site. I.L.W.U. CU is an XP Systems user, Pacific Resource is with Summit Information Systems and Tacoma Longshoremen CU uses a Galaxy Plus system.