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WASHINGTON - Online banking and travel purchases continue to be the most popular business done electronically by consumers nowadays, with Internet banking leading the growth with a 164% increase in the past two years, according to an ongoing study of American online activity by a leading independent research group. In...

I've spent the last several years helping credit unions develop and implement an online presence on the Internet. From e-mail only to simple "informational" Web sites through sophisticated sites that offer the latest in transactional capabilities, I've seen credit unions work (sometimes torturously) through putting online technology to the best...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Providing special functionality to make Web sites work for the blind may be the right thing to do for some credit unions but it's not yet the law. A federal judge in Miami recently dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Southwest Airlines violated the Americans with Disabilities Act...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Following rules as well as fighting off rogues will make IS security an increasingly difficult challenge for credit unions in 2003 and the years ahead, industry participants say. "As their business grows, we see our clients asking us more and more for the ways and means to...

LENEXA, Kan. - U.S. Central's Corporate Network eCom subsidiary will soon roll out a product that will allow credit union members to do person-to-person payments and inter-institution transfers. Called MemberACH, it will be offered to corporate credit unions to offer their natural person CU members, though the initial target market...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - At Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union, talk is cheap. For the past five years the $780 million credit union has been developing an environment based on passion and accountability with a focus on building relationships and leaders. "It sounds easy but it is harder to do...