W.B. King

BALTIMORE, Maryland -- Though the holidays are over, technology wishes can still come true. Horsetail Technologies, in conjunction with Credit Union Journal, will be accepting applications for the Second Annual $100K Extreme Network Makeover starting in March.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- CUNA expects approval of the Internet domain name .creditunion (dot credit union) by the worldwide Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, anytime now.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — To keep pace with government-mandated authentication guidelines that require a one-time, out-of-band passcode to be used to log into online banking, Star One Credit Union turned to a third-party vendor, Digital Insight.

LAKE JACKSON, Texas — With the annual March 1 date looming for Federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) compliance, Texas Dow Employees Credit Union has successfully implemented an automated solution that saves time, money and beats the deadline.

LAS VEGAS — There have been both expected and unexpected rippling effects from the Great Recession.

TAMPA, Fla. — There were four winners of the second annual PSCU KnockOut Innovation Summit held earlier this fall.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The ability to handle account origination via a tablet is critical to success.

JACKSON, Miss. — Known as one of the industry leaders serving the underbanked and underserved, Hope Credit Union is turning its focus from traditional branches to enhanced mobile apps.

NEW YORK — While it's best to leave the "naughty or nice" list to the bearded, rotund, red-and-white-dressed man in the know, a holiday wish can be appropriate at any age.

Building on a successful track record of developing in-house applications, such as a mobile banking app called Sprig, Maps Credit Union has furthered its technological reach by working with a college intern to develop the CU's latest offering - an app called "Buy Local."

SALEM, Ore. — Building on its successful track record of developing in-house applications, such as Sprig, Maps Credit Union furthered its technological reach by working with a college intern who became instrumental in developing the CU's latest offering - the "Buy Local" app.

JACKSON, Miss. — Known as one of the industry leaders serving the underbanked and underserved, Hope CU is turning its focus from traditional branches to enhanced mobile apps.

ST.PAUL, Minn. — In a few short years, mobile banking has morphed into a must-have service. And while most credit unions are using mobile in some capacity, important lessons from the field are determining how to package new offerings.

WASHINGTON — Over the last year, there has been a plethora of denial of service attacks (DDoS) at financial institutions, including Patelco Credit Union, University (of Texas) FCU, Key Bank, M&T Bancorp and Zions Bank, among others.

RICHLAND,Wash. — Gesa CU's move to virtual teller branches have reduced staff turnover, sped up transaction times, reduced the cost of branch expansion and even scored the CU the 2013 Excellence in Technology award at this year's CUNA Technology Council Conference.

TUSCON, Ariz. — Undertaking new technology initiatives often comes with a few bumps in the road, which is why successful solution launches are all the more sweeter. For Hughes Federal Credit Union, a recent overhaul of its online banking platform was just that-a sweet success.

TULSA, Okla. — With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's qualified mortgage (QM) regulation implementation date looming large, credit unions are gearing up to make sure all of their related software and operating systems ducks are in a row.

TULSA, Okla. — With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's qualified mortgage (QM) regulation implementation date looming large, credit unions are gearing up to make sure all of their related software and operating systems ducks are in a row.

COLUMBUS, Ind.—With banking transactions increasingly moving toward mobile, Centra Credit Union has successfully adopted smartphone lending technologies here, which has more than doubled the number of loans closed each month.

VERNON HILLS, Ill.—Just two years since its inception, Credit Union Financial Exchange (CUFX) has made significant strides in developing vendor-agnostic standards for the credit union industry with the goal of making product and service integration easier and less expensive.