COLUMBUS, Ohio - KEMBA Financial Credit Union doesn't necessarily take the beaten path when it comes to launching a new solution or solving an old problem, its chief technology officer says. For instance, unsatisfied with standard options for electronic statements and notices delivery, KEMBA Financial combined its archival system from...

SAN ANTONIO - Eighteen years ago, San Antonio Federal Credit Union (SACU) became the first credit union in the country to do indirect auto lending, its key executives say, and it hasn't looked back since. The $1.7 billion, 16-branch CU has continued to build on that legacy, using in-house talent...

NEEDHAM, Mass. -Vendor consolidation and a shrinking client base has resulted in a handful of nationwide operators now controlling most of the processing technology market for this sector of the financial services industry in the United States. Are we talking about credit unions? No, it's the core outsourcing market for...

CHAPIN, S.C. - A team of online banking security specialists has developed a software tool to help credit unions determine if their sites can be comprised by automated hacking scripts and denial-of-service attacks. The CUDefense team is trying to drum up business for its new BankBuster software that it's offering...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Spending on technology at credit unions and banks has been pretty level the past five years, and a key to the organization's success remains in how those dollars are spent and how the results are measured. That's a bottom line from "The Cornerstone Report: Benchmarks and Best...

TACOMA, Wash. - Harborstone Credit Union is now putting its mortgage loan documents on the Web, becoming one of the first credit unions to use the eLynx Web Posting Service (WPS) to electronically deliver and track closing documents. "Formerly, most of our first mortgage loan documents were printed in-house and...

BROOKFIELD, Wis. - Integrating a credit decision engine into CUSA Technologies' core processing system is one of the projects that Fiserv Inc. is citing as an initial accomplishment in a companywide initiative to blend the far-flung enterprise's technological capacities. Fiserv has more than 60 integration projects under way, and says...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Credit unions and others who wrote off Internet banks as only a passing fancy may want to think again. "Much of the financial services industry has pronounced Internet banking only `dot-gone.' But we find that contrary to widely held opinions, Internet-only banks not only continue to exist...