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...

WALLINGFORD, Conn. - Connecticut consumers interested in learning which of the state's 150 CUs they're eligible to join will soon be able to go online to the California Credit Union League's Match-Up Web site to find out. The Connecticut Credit Union Association has agreed to add its member credit unions...

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...

ATLANTA - In a co-marketing first, Discover Financial Services and The Mills Corporation have held the grand opening of the Discover Mills shopping center. The 1.3 million square-foot retail and entertainment center located in Gwinnett County is part of a 10-year partnership in which Discover Card is the preferred payment...

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....

WASHINGTON - In a Federal Open Market Meeting Nov. 6, the Fed cut another 50 basis points off the target for the federal funds rate to 2%. Not only is this number a 40-year low, but it also drops the rate below the rate of inflation. The Federal Reserve Board...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -First Entertainment Credit Union CEO Charles Bruen, who is also chairman of the California Credit Union League's task force on alternative sources of capital, defended credit unions' tax-exempt status in a letter to the editor responding to an October 2001 U.S. Banker article entitled Endangering The...