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STAMFORD, Conn. - Since the growing anthrax scares, Gartner, Inc., a research and advisory firm, forecasts that by the end of 2001, 32 million Americans will view credit card and other statements online representing a 60% jump from last year. While marketing campaigns emphasizing value added services and convenience played...

INDIANAPOLIS - Credit union data processor re:Member Data Services has given its customers compatibility of thermal receipt printers with its cuStar core data processing software. ASP and in-house customers can use thermal printers. "From the member's perspective, receipts generated from thermal printers are more convenient to handle because of their...

SAN FRANCISCO - Respondents to the sixth annual "Computer Crime and Security Survey" by the non-profit Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the Computer Intrusion Squad of the San Francisco office of the FBI reported financial losses averaging $2 million each in 2001 because of computer network intrusions. That's almost double...

CARLSBAD, Calif. - Arizona Central Credit Union has completed the installation of Bluepoint Solutions' Receipt Manager. Receipt Manager allows member signatures to be electronically captured at the teller window, eliminating the need to keep paper copies of all member receipts as dictated by state and federal regulations. "Receipt Manager gives...

SAN ANTONIO - Southwest Business Corporation will showcase its new high-tech product line at "Tech Mecca" being held in Arlington, Texas from November 28 - 30. Tech Mecca is being jointly sponsored by the Independent Bankers Association of Texas, the Texas Credit Union League and the PULSE Network. SWBC will...

SAN ANTONIO - The tech-heads in credit unions may have no problem sifting through security assessment reports full of wild acronyms and tech jargon, but board members and non-tech management personnel can't make heads or tails of it. That's an issue CU security firm Digital Defense is out to fix....

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Computer crimes - including viruses, worms and denial-of-service attacks along with actual theft of information and assets - continue to soar, and while a price tag is hard to place on the damage, there is an intangible cost that credit unions particularly should fear, experts say. "Members...

SALT LAKE CITY - Credit union data processor Computer Consultants Corp. here believes it is the first CU data processor to integrate the new Metro 2 credit bureau reporting requirement into its core system, Mercury. CCCorp, which serves about 1,000 CUs, has added Metro 2 within its new Windows-based Mercury...