MANCHESTER, N.H. - MembersFirst Credit Union is combining the power of a portal with the depth of a knowledge management database to provide smoother operations for its employees and better service to its members. The $120 million CU is one of the first to combine the intranet collaboration portal from...

BETHPAGE, N.Y. - Maria Tullo now relies on software instead of paper pushing to make sure Bethpage Federal Credit Union is following federal regulations covering home mortgage lending. Tullo is assistant manager of mortgage originations for the $1.7 billion CU on Long Island and is using the HMDA RELIEF system...

ATLANTA - Goodbye, blue screen. CuServ is now doing Windows. Harland Financial Solutions is beginning to replace the venerable character-based front-end teller system for small credit unions with a new Windows-based processing platform it calls CuServ Evolution. About 250 of Harland Financial Solutions' 625 credit union core processing clients are...

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...

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...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - VeriSign Inc., a longtime major provider of Internet infrastructure, has launched a five-piece anti-phishing security offering. Fraudsters use phishing attacks, typically e-mails, to attempt to fool consumers into giving account numbers and the like through real-looking Web sites. Estimates are that up to 5% of users...

CARMEL, Ind. - Baker Hill is adding some hardware to the software it uses to protect the confidentiality of the client information pouring in and out of its servers. The financial services software company, a specialist in loan processing and relationship management technologies, has deployed the Teros Gateway, a small...

STAMFORD, Conn. - Unauthorized transfers from checking accounts has become the fastest growing form of electronic fraud in the past year, and financial institutions need to do something about it. That's from Avivah Litan, a research director at Gartner Inc., who says a new survey of 5,000 online U.S. adults...