COLUMBIA, S.C. - Has Internet banking gone from leading edge to backyard hedge? As home banking has become a standard offering for financial institutions of all sizes, it's common to hear that it has become a commodity (a definition of which, according to Merriam-Webster, is a "mass-produced unspecialized product.") Indeed,...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - So how do consumers choose where to take their banking business? First, prospective credit union members and bank customers are looking carefully at the numbers and locations of branches before opening a checking account. Second, they are looking in more than one place for information to help...

RALEIGH, N.C. - An online banking pioneer, Coastal Federal Credit Union has just completed an upgrade of its own custom-made Internet banking platform, marking the completion of a five-year project. Coastal FCU was one of the first financial institutions to do live transactions online when it launched its service in...

INDIANAPOLIS - FORUM Solutions plans to soon introduce a new version of its TAPS Enterprise Lending Application that will integrate with a wide variety of databases and other applications to sharply cut deployment time, the CUSO says. FORUM Solutions is a wholly-owned CUSO of FORUM Credit Union. Its Total Account...

FRISCO, Texas - IntegraSys has completed beta testing of its newest core processing platform and is now offering it to the small- and mid-sized credit union market. Called CubicsPlus, the new solution is expected to replace the CUBICS platform IntegraSys had installed in more than 200 credit unions when Fiserv...

MONETT, Mo. - Is Jack Henry & Associates enroute to becoming the next Fiserv? Just like the biggest technology provider in the credit union industry, Jack Henry has been growing by buying, including announcing two acquisitions on the same day in late December, bringing to five the number of companies...

FULLERTON, Calif. - About every 20 minutes or so, some of the high-tech gear at Pacific Community Credit Union gets pinged by a remote server hundreds of miles away. And it's a good thing. That ping is from Dotcom-Monitor, a Minnesota company whose clients pay it to make sure their...

SAN ANTONIO - Some fellow Texans are getting together to try to make their mark on the indirect auto lending industry in credit union land. Southwest Business Corp. of San Antonio, an established provider of risk management, insurance and technology solutions to more than 600 credit unions for nearly 30...