MONTEREY PARK, Calif. - Energy First Credit Union is going new wave to do business the old way. The $403 million CU, the former Gasco Credit Union that's now the new owner of a community charter, is in the final stages of testing a just-released security solution that will allow...

NORWELL, Mass. - Darryl Demos isn't afraid to throw out big numbers. Like 500% ROI, and 33% of the market. Demos is founder and CEO of Demos Solutions and says his clients can expect a five-fold return on their investment in the first two years of using StaffSmart, a browser-based...

MURRIETA, Calif. - Two years after leaving Symitar to join eCU Technologies, Ron Murray has left to form his own consultancy, taking with him three fellow Southern Californian eCU employees. Murray is now president of CUTEK, a four-person consultancy focusing on the 350 or so credit unions using Symitar's Episys...

AUSTIN, Texas - FundsXpress Financial Network Inc. has just completed migrating clients to the newest version of CheckFree's bill pay platform. Other than a four-hour window of downtime for the conversion, the two-month process was invisible to end users, says Greg Constantine, executive vice president at FundsXpress, a provider of...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - As phishers and other fraudsters "move downstream," Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union will be ready with its virtual net. The $2.3 billion CU has signed on with Cyota Inc. to use FraudAction, the New York City-based firm's anti-phishing solution. Cyota boasts a client list that includes eight...

WASHINGTON - Credit unions wanting to ensure themselves a spot as their members' primary financial institution, much less not lose business to others, may want to capitalize on the opportunities presented by account-to-account (A2A) technologies. The competition already is going after that fast-growing market, according to Chip Filson, president of...

SEATTLE - What's in a name? A lot, actually, when you're trying to make sense of the thousands of entries compiled each day by the software keeping track of who's coming and going on your Internet site. That was the biggest challenge faced by Ken Kinloch and his colleagues at...

TAMPA, Fla. - Rick Woods got the word he was moving to Tampa in a most unusual way - he'd been traded. Woods, now senior vice president of sales and a partner in CastleGarde, a Tampa-based credit union IT security services provider, was a pro football player in 1987, a...