Two more credit unions – both in the same Texas Hill Countrytown – have converted to the CU*BASE core processing system and athird, this one a good bit north, has committed to switching,according to CU*Answers.

The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based CUSO said conversions wererecently completed at the $9.7 million Hilco Credit Union and the$13 million Texhillco Credit Union, both in Kerrville, Texas.

Both are now client-owners in CU*South, an Alabama-based CUSO that provides the CU*BASE platform throughthe cuasterisk network. Both had been on the Sharetec platform,CU*Answers said.

Hilco serves 1,200 members through SEGs at Kerrville StateHospital, Kerr County, the City of Kerrville, the local USDA officeand the Upper Guadeloupe River Authority. Texhillco servesabout 1,900 members through its SEG with local schools.

Meanwhile, the $63 million Tongass Federal Credit Union in Ketchikan will be the firstAlaska client for CU*NorthWest, a Washington-based member of thecuasterisk network.

Tongass has four branches on three Alaskan islands and plans toconvert next March, CU*Answers said. It currently runs on theSymitar Cruise platform, according to data from Callahan &Associates.

CU*South now has 29 credit union clients and CU*NorthWest has 25, while another 171 credit unions run theCU*BASE platform through CU*Answers itself, the Michigan CUSOsaid.