evacuated to Lafayette and Houston, respectively, as the storm approached. That was after they managed to retrieve a hard copy of the member trial balance, backup of the computer drives and their disaster kit before leaving town.

If they've got a mind to, members of the Los Angeles Firemen's Credit Union can get records of board meetings back to the CU's original days with a few clicks of a mouse, thanks to some high-end archiving software now deployed at the $750 million institution.

About 18 months after it was formed, Ongoing Operations, LLC has passed its first live test, a disaster drill for Northwest Federal Credit Union.

Two heads are better than one, it's said. Just ask the credit unions making the switch to a clustered server environment.

One financial institution's employee used simple FTP to transfer more than 1,250 customer account statements to a business partner, unencrypted and containing account numbers and names.

Cyberspace crime today could almost make one miss script kiddies, those clever bedroom hackers who sent viruses and worms spiraling through the Internet, snarling networks worldwide while IT security vendors scurried to find yet another fix.

The do-it-yourselfers at Technology Credit Union are now ramping up their move into business services.

Strong community relationships have always been the forte of credit unions, but a new type of company may soon be jockeying for the role of friendly financier. Enter the United Kingdom's peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace, Zopa.