The 300-plus credit unions running the Sharetec core processing platform are now being offered Check 21 solutions from VSoft Corp.

The 23 credit unions using the Credit Union On-Line Inc. service bureau are now all offering their members Internet banking through Fiserv's Virtual Branch suite.

A new report from the Filene Research Institute has brought academic research to what has been mostly anecdotal reports: Consumers are opting to pay their credit card bills instead of their mortgages first.

There were 860 financial institutions that the FDIC considered to be troubled during the third quarter, up from 829 during the previous three months, according to data released by the agency today.