DALLAS - Sollen Technologies announced product enhancements to Lender Online, a pricing and pipeline management tool. Updates include an easier-to-use, more powerful search that helps loan officers by returning a true best execution without requiring the loan officer to predetermine the loan type.

NEW YORK - e-Smart Technologies yesterday announced it has been awarded a U.S. patent on its intelligent biometric identification card technology. The company's Super Smart Card has a sensor for capturing live biometric data, and a processor that will compare the data, such as a fingerprint, to stored data. The patent also covers the company's method for capturing biometric data and matching it with reference data, and causing the card to perform a desired function only if the identity of the user is verified. (c) 2007 The Credit Union Journal and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.cujournal.com http://www.sourcemedia.com

DENVER - Credit union products are often deeply buried in the pages of popular search engines, never to be seen by online consumers.

MONETT, Mo. - Jack Henry & Associates Inc. announced that California-based Western FCU has selected the Episys platform to provide enterprise-wide automation. This credit union, which has more than $1.2 billion in assets and approximately 119,000 members, will install Episys in-house. (c) 2007 The Credit Union Journal and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.cujournal.com http://www.sourcemedia.com

HARRISBURG, Penn. - Pennsylvania State Employees CU has several Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) on its staff, and that certification and membership in the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, is priceless, according to Tracey Bray, director of PSECU's loss prevention and security unit.

BRIDGETON, Mo. - E-mail and phone calls are too chaotic, and instant messaging is fleeting. Project management software is overkill, file transfer sites are too crude-and face-to-face meetings cost big money and time.

DURHAM, N.C. - RTP FCU here has become the first credit union in the country to convert to a real-time interface with Open Solutions' The Complete Credit Union System Standard Market Edition.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - After 13 years of creating daily rate sheets the hard way, often to find them peppered with errors, Orange County's Credit Union here landed on a tool that automatically-and accurately-generates them.

AT&T Launches Mobile Banking

LAS VEGAS - Members are still falling for the same old phishing tricks, some five years into grand-scale phishing and despite continued attempts to warn members against such ploys, according to some credit unions.

LAS VEGAS - Is the hype of the early part of this decade finally coming to fruition in mobile payments?

KING OF PRUSSIA, Penn. - AFTECH announced that it will continue its 20-year processing partnership with Sun East FCU in Aston, Pa, a $316-million CU.Sun East has authorized a new agreement with AFTECH for core processing and other products and services that brings Sun East the opportunity to offer its more than 40,000 members a range of new services.

Natco Teams With Sedona

ARCATA, Calif. - What looked like a set of overblown accounting tools a year ago has propelled the $15-million Northern Redwood FCU here toward "sophisticated" financial analysis worthy of any billion-dollar CU, according to CEO Greg Goodwyn.

DANVILLE, Va. - Credit unions' blogs have turned into "blobbies."

HARRISBURG, Penn. - Machiavelli believed it's better to be feared than loved, but Pennsylvania State Employees CU knows that if you push the fear button too often, it starts to lose its impact.

VIENNA, Va. - Mobile banking has much to prove before claiming the same success that homebanking has earned over the past decade, according to several of the nation's credit unions, large and small, that are holding off on offering the service.

STAMFORD, Conn. - Five major discontinuities are combining and will force IT organizations to change long-standing practices for procuring and managing IT, according to a new study from Gartner Inc. The intensity of these trends will grow through 2011, the consulting firm added.

EUGENE, Ore. - "Alandra," a SELCO Community Credit Union member, is browsing the Net for an opportunity as a volunteer in her community. Meanwhile, the Department of Human Services here is looking for helpers to drive foster children to visit their parents.

MOLINE, Ill. - More than one year into enterprise instant messaging (IM), Mary Slonecker, PC specialist at $550-million IH Mississippi Valley CU here, provided Credit Union Journal with her "Top Three Tips" for implementing the tool: