LOS ANGELES - Richard Nelson is proud of what his two-person IT department has done for the $49-million Cityside FCU here, especially since small CUs have few resources and tend to “hide technology in the basement,” he said.

SANDY, Utah - Never one to fool around with banks or Microsoft, CMC here is marking a 30-year love affair with credit unions and IBM, according to Sean Holcomb, SVP at CMC.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Technology takes center stage at Community First Credit Union here this year, as the $120-million CU adds its first integrated lending application as well as its first imaging and document systems–among several other projects.

TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. - When Tinker FCU here walked away from Symitar’s job-scheduling tool and went with an IBM solution instead, there were no hard feelings.

AVONDALE, Ariz. - A new study sheds light on the costs and challenges being felt by credit unions as they administer and support multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other authentication products and services.

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INDIANAPOLIS - FORUM Solutions, a CUSO of FORUM CU, has sold its TAPS lending software to Akcelerant. According to the CUSO, the move was made to keep pace with the growing lending needs of the 29 CUs using TAPS.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A $35-million credit union here raises the red flag on identity theft with the help of a new monitoring technology–scanning more than 1,000 public databases and alerting the member and the CU to suspicious activity.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A fledgling NCUA workgroup may help bridge the “digital divide” that continues to isolate a good number of small credit unions, according to the Office of Small Credit Union Initiatives (OSCUI) here.

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia CU here is completely sold on server virtualization–a technology that is “breaking the tech triangle” of expense, speed and security, according to Rich Barlow, systems architect and engineering manager at the $1.5-billion CU.

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Lisa R. Minor used to spend so much time sifting through the volumes of spam at GHS FCU here that she often didn’t have time to read legitimate e-mails.

HOLYOKE, Mass. - Holyoke CU here dodged delinquencies by weeding out bad loans originated by automobile dealers–and later quickly pulling out of the subprime auto loan market–thanks to instant reports generated by a business intelligence (BI) tool.

LA HABRA, Calif. - Credit union websites are awakening from years of dreamless sleep, and Credit Union Journal set out in 2008 to chronicle their renaissance.

WASHINGTON - All of those Fiserv business units and still not merging.

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Nish Shah, chief technology officer, IMM, Linden, N.J.