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| March 26, 2013
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Examine Your Mobile Strategy for 2013

Originally posted on CUInsight.com

Guest post written by David Hilger, SVP Information Technology, Allied Solutions

Articles about mobile banking are popping up everywhere – from the Wall Street Journal to American Banker, in local papers, and on technology and finance blogs. Think more broadly – don’t ask yourself whether or not you have mobile banking. Consider where you’d like your mobile strategy to take you.

What are your members asking for?

There are, perhaps, many things you are hoping to offer your members: mobile banking that allows them to check their balance or transfer funds; remote deposit capture; ATM or branch locations or mapping; straightforward “contact us” options or maybe a more robust self service capability. People appreciate these tools, and are increasingly likely to expect such offerings from their bank or credit union and often consider these when selecting their financial institution.

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| January 26, 2012
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Let’s all speak the same loan data language

Originally published on CUinsight.com.

How many times have you purchased a lending solution, and then realized that it was going to be more expensive to integrate with your core system and other components than it cost in the first place? Have you ever wished that your core system and document management, indirect lending, credit rating, title search, credit card, collateral evaluation, home equity loan, compliance and insurance tracking systems – just to name a few – all played nice in the same sandbox?

The issue is loan data, or more precisely the lack of standards for communication between different systems. This ‘Tower of Babel’ dramatically complicates the process and is far more common than it should be.

When you deploy an application in any one of those areas, each integration project is often a separate and custom job, and frequently involves multiple integrations for each source and for each solution. I’m willing to bet that if I polled a hundred credit union CEOs, COOs and CIOs that nearly all of them would be able to describe at least one project like this that became a ‘death march’ of software integration. Read more

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| January 10, 2012
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The Supervisory Committee: Focusing on Fraud Detection

Guest post by Jay Slagel, Vice President of Risk Management and Claims for Allied Solutions, LLC.

Credit unions have a “watchdog” looking out for their interests, overseeing operations and ensuring their records are maintained with honesty and integrity: the supervisory committee. The committee has a host of tools at its disposal to carry out its purpose. Among them is an annual audit of the credit union.

Information gleaned from this audit assists the committee in evaluating credit union operations and in making recommendations to the board. The supervisory committee may also perform surprise cash counts, review non-financial transactions or reconcile credit union accounts with an eye toward compliance with laws and regulations. All these activities place the committee in a prime position to catch suspicious transactions or behaviors that may indicate fraud. Read more

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| January 2, 2012
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Nine Credit Union Industry Experts Tell Us What To Watch For In 2012

I like to say that one of a visionary leader’s most important functions is seeing over the horizon and recognizing opportunities and threats before anyone else does, and then shaping the strategy and tactics of the organization accordingly.

So for our year-end blog post I asked our Preferred Partners to tell us what they see coming over the horizon, from their perspective, that credit union executives need to be focused on and/or prepared for as we head into 2012.  Here is what a few of them said — Read more

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| August 3, 2011
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Top Six (Free) Webcasts in the NAFCU Services Library

Our partners are on the front lines with credit unions every day, and while you may only have experience with your credit union, the odds are that our Preferred Partners have worked with hundreds or even thousands. They can bring perspective and common problem-solving to bear on practically any topic.

At NAFCU Services, we try to help the knowledge transfer process by capturing the expertise of our Preferred Partners in digital format—in webcasts, webinars, podcasts and white papers that are archived in our NAFCU Services Partner Library. We are up to 180 and counting, and best of all they are free to ALL credit unions!

Check out our top six most popular webcasts over the last couple of years: Read more

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