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STAMFORD, Conn. - As credit unions continue outsourcing various parts of their technology and business process infrastructures, they need to make sure their new partners are keeping things secure. Before they sign. "The key to successful and secure outsourcing agreements is understanding the security and privacy risks for a business...

STAMFORD, Conn. - Management oversight as well as a good understanding of the stage of development of the available technology before and after deploying it, are keys to secure electronic messaging such as e-mails. That's the essence of a research report from Gartner Inc. that examines issues credit unions may...

The people? That's the part of the IT security puzzle that sometimes falls under the heading "social engineering" and includes everything from educating staffers against giving system passwords over the phone to not opening e-mail that can introduce viruses or worms. The problem is real and it's growing, according to...

Credit unions are taking a retail approach to branch design. Read about that and the latest facilities news on pages. 24-28.

Find out what Former Michigan CU League CEO Ken Bixby is up to these days. Page 40.

NEW YORK - 2004 marks a change in U.S. retail financial institutions' IT investment. A recent Datamonitor report, U.S. Retail Banking Technology Spending Strategies, predicts that U.S. retail financial institution IT investments will reach $37.8 billion in 2006, up from $33.5 billion in 2003. Although this growth is still lower...