WILLISTON, Vt. - New England Federal Credit Union is benefiting in more ways than one from its participation in a credit union technology consortium, including deploying alerts and e-statement solutions springing from the consortium's sponsoring firm. Those two solutions are part of CUNotify, a package of notification software solutions aimed...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Natural disasters used to be foremost on the minds of planners at PSCU Financial Services, but post 9/11 realities have changed that focus. The major CU payments processor has launched an IT infrastructure and business continuity plan aimed at ensuring continuing service in case something big...

KENSINGTON, Md. - Compliance with IT security regulations is becoming a major undertaking for credit unions, along with the actual defense against hackers and viruses, and Lafayette Federal Credit Union has taken that bull by the horns by deploying risk-assessment software its chief technology manager says will ensure the D.C.-area...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - It's hard to put a price on security, but when it comes to patching that growing flood of server and PC vulnerabilities, it's only going up. Generally the term "patches" refers to software downloads needed to plug potential or actual ways that hackers, of both the ethical...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - What takes a couple hours to download on broadband, more like a couple days if you're using dialup? It's the new Windows XP Service Pack 2, perhaps the "mother of all patches" and Microsoft's latest and perhaps biggest bid to help plug the security breaches plaguing its...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Credit union service organizations are nothing new, but emerging on the scene now are a new breed of CUSOs that are extending the "do-it-yourself" attitude and aptitude to the world of new technology delivery. "One of the most positive trends in credit union technology has been the...

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Because radio frequency (RF) payment systems and RFID inventory tags are still in their infancy and often not fully understood by consumers, they have been subject to some occasionally nasty talk about violating consumer privacy. But they are two very different things. A recent report by TowerGroup...

AVON, Conn. - COCC plans to pass the savings from Check 21 on to its processing clients by acting as an image-exchange broker, the company says. "Our strategy is to aggregate the outgoing check images, ship them electronically to the exchanges that offer the best funds availability and lowest processing...