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ATLANTA - Equifax has officially completed its acquisition of APPRO Systems, Inc., a well-known vendor in credit union land for its online lending and decisioning products. Baton Rouge-based APPRO has approximately 150 financial institution clients, mainly made up of CUs and community banks. Its flagship products is its APPRO's LoanCenter...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - 2005 is off to an auspicious start for Fidelity Information Services. FIS is the financial institution technology division of Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a Fortune 500 firm that is best known for its real estate solutions. Fidelity acquired its way into the CU core processing space when...

SALT LAKE CITY - A federal judge's ruling last December rejecting six-county expansion bids by a group of Utah credit unions has certainly given pause to NCUA policies on multi-county approvals, but new field of membership applications are in the pipeline now, Region 5 Director Melinda Love told CU executives...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - According to a new Forrester Research report, the percentage of online consumers who get at least one e-statement has more than tripled in about 18 months or so. So that should amount to big savings for those financial institutions that no longer have to send costly paper...

ARLINGTON, Va. -Online banking continues a steady trend upward for Americans using the Internet. According to the most recent survey (taken November 2004 and released last month) conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, some 53 million individuals, representing 44% of Internet users and one-quarter of all adults...

LAKELAND, Fla. - Publix Employees Federal Credit Union is in the process of rolling out a series of high-tech solutions aimed at both improving member service and hardening network reliability while increasing internal efficiencies. At the heart of the effort are a phalanx of products from Cisco Systems, the major...