WASHINGTON - CUNA, a new member of BITS, an IT group consisting of industry representatives that is working on developing standards for doing business online, recently submitted a comment letter about BITS' draft entitled Framework for Managing Information Technology Service Provider Relationships. CUNA suggested a number of changes to the...

TEMPLE HILLS, Md.-Acting NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar presented Rev. John Cherry with a federal charter for None Suffer Lack Federal Credit Union in a special ceremony last week. The federal credit union is the newest faith-based credit union in America, scheduled to officially open for business October 1. "The leadership...

PLANO, Texas - Aurum Technology has announced its second acquisition in a span of a week. Aurum, which was formed from the sell-off of EDS' community bank processing division, has acquired Morningside Corporation, Kansas City, a provider of core processing, teller, and platform software for community and mid-tier banks. A...

HERNDON, Va. - Navy FCU is the latest credit union to join NACHA's Project ACTION initiative. Project ACTION (www.project-action.org) is attempting to use the established ACH network to make e-commerce transactions more secure. The group wants to have a system where the consumer selects their financial provider to "push" a...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hoping to meet its goal of raising $1 million in political action funds through the 2002 election campaign, the California Credit Union League has sent a first-ever direct mail solicitation to suppliers urging them to ante up. "You and/or your company's contributions represent an opportunity to take...

TAMPA, Fla. - Don Charron, senior vice president responsible for mortgage and consumer lending for Suncoast Schools FCU has only one way to describe the $2.6 billion CU's mortgage operation post- vs. pre- implemention of Fiserv's easyLENDERT loan origination software - "It's like night and day," says Charron. After working...

Card Services for Credit Unions, a card processing association, has appointed the following officers to its board: John Fiore, chairman; Robert Hunt, vice chairman; Ray E. Cromer, secretary; Patrick McGrady, treasurer; Robert Bream, director; Dennis Huber, director; Janet Meyers, director; Fran Muto, director; and Konnie Werner director. Autoland, an auto-buying...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Centrix Financial here has released an enhanced version of its Credit Ready Program, a product Centrix is actively marketing to the CU market. The Credit Ready Program is Centrix's tool for delivering its Portfolio Management Program directly to CU members with impaired credit, whether the application came...