TAMPA, Fla. - CastleGarde, a provider of IT security and compliance services to credit unions, has new owners after the company's president was arrested on charges that he allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl three years ago. Ed Francis was freed on $15,000 bond after his arrest in May,...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Tim Simpson and his tech-savvy employer, Community First Credit Union of Florida, aren't afraid to think out of the box, and they like to take the box-maker with them when they can. Simpson is vice president of IT at $870 million Community First, which has been using...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Tropical Storm Arlene probably wasn't as much of a wakeup call to credit unions as it might have been in years past when the first system of the new hurricane season rolled over the Florida Panhandle recently. People were already awake and aware. In fact, the area...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a term much bandied about these days, along with its close relatives XML, Microsoft .NET and Web services. But what is SOA? "SOA is a software architectural style based on loose coupling among software agents that interact," is how it's defined by...

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Paper's not going away anytime soon, so credit unions might as well make the most of what technology has to offer in the way of print, too. That's the philosophy behind Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union's use of the customization options it has for its electronic...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - No more $5 pencils at Affinity Federal Credit Union. The $1.3 billion CU has automated purchasing for its 390 or so employees, using a software solution called Epicor Procurement. One or two employees at each of the credit union's approximately two dozen locations are authorized to...

OMAHA, Neb. - One of the big guns in Internet banking has launched a new service that hands the keys to the digital dashboard over to the clients, and Tim Mogler says that makes his job easier. Mogler is the Internet marketing specialist at $314 million Centris Federal Credit Union...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This summer everyone's getting into the pool on the teller line at SAFE Credit Union. They're not getting all wet, though. The $1.2 billion CU is beta testing the latest version of the Exametric Workforce Management Suite, including a new pool feature designed to help streamline scheduling...