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HARRISBURG, Pa. - eCU Technologies is beta testing its new service bureau solution with the $39 million Choice Community CU in Greensboro, N.C. eCU Technologies is the tech CUSO of the $2.3 billion Pennsylvania State Employees CU. It was created to help credit unions leverage their Symitar core system. This...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The top three IT security threats facing today's plugged-in organization, including credit unions, are probably viruses and worms, followed by employees acting in unauthorized ways, and failure to comply with regulations. That's from Forrester Research's January survey of 200 technology decision-makers at North American firms of all...

NEEDHAM, Mass. - After years of pure cost cutting, many U.S. credit unions and banks are gearing their IT budgets toward sustainable operational efficiency, a strategic objective that will help fuel robust IT spending growth. That's the assessment of TowerGroup senior analyst Virginia Garcia, who projects $5 billion more in...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Internet is losing some of its allure as a way to do business in the face of continuing attacks by identity thieves and hackers of all stripes. Rebuilding that trust is going to require aggressive protection of accounts and identifying information, according to a new report...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Puedo cualificar para una hipoteca? That's Spanish for "can I qualify for a mortgage" and it's a question that SharperLending LLC hopes to help its 17,000 client lenders, including credit unions and banks, answer. SharperLending provides Web-based bundling for ordering, storing and managing mortgage products from initial...

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...