Press Releases

CU*Answers Publishes Second Article on NCUA’s Revised Risk Based Capital Rule

CU*Answers, a cooperative CUSO located in West Michigan, announced that is has published its second article critiquing the NCUA’s revised Risk Based Capital rule (RBC2). The article continues from part one of the three-part series by addressing the Rule from a holistic approach. “Of the three articles this is the most compelling as it cuts […]

Winter Events at CU*Answers

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – January 30, 2015 CU*Answers, the 100% owned cooperative CUSO, is providing warm hospitality during the winter months. CU*Answers has meeting rooms available to be used that are accompanied by a staff that is willing to cater to their client’s needs. This includes catering, technology assistance, and execution of the day’s events. […]

CU*Answers Announces Cost of Compliance Contest Winners

CU*Answers, data processor to nearly 200 credit unions nationwide, announced the winners of their first Cost of Compliance contest at its recent CEO Strategies Conference. Contest participants were tasked to create a template that provides a standard way of accounting for an institution’s overall costs associated with compliance related activities. “Nine credit unions participated in […]

CU*Answers Awarding $5000 in Cost of Compliance Contest

CU*Answers, data processor to nearly 200 credit unions nationwide, recently announced the Cost of Compliance contest, sponsored by its compliance division, AuditLink. Open to all credit union CEOs and CFOs, contest participants need to create a template that provides a standard way of calculating the cost of compliance. The template should list the costs of […]

AuditLink Fights Against Elder Abuse

AuditLink, the audit and compliance division of the West Michigan-based CUSO CU*Answers, is in the beginning stages of a campaign to fight elder abuse. Their first step in the fight is dedicating their ninth edition of Network Compliance Teacher to elder abuse. “We had an enormous response from our clients when we sent out the […]

CUNA Urges Comments on Risk Based Capital Proposal

CUNA’s Small Credit Union Committee created a call to action for Credit Unions to respond to the NCUA’s proposed Risk based Capital regulation.  The letter urges all credit unions to respond to the NCUA call for comments before the comment period ends on May 28th. CUNA and the NWCUA also sent this letter to all credit unions […]

CU*Answers Releases White Paper Assessing the Risk of DDoS Attacks

CU*Answers, the 100% credit union-owned, cooperative CUSO headquartered In Grand Rapids, MI has published a white paper focusing on assessing the risk of Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks (DDoS). The white paper was developed in conjunction with AuditLink, an auditing and compliance division of CU*Answers Managed Services. The document fully describes a DDoS attack and what credit […]

CU*Answers Releases New Retention Dashboard in GOLD

CU*Answers announced another data mining dashboard was included in the Fall release of CU*BASE® GOLD revolving around the retention rates of both membership and sub-accounts. The release allows credit unions to understand the decay rates based upon the year the accounts are opened. The new dashboard was originally intended to provide credit union executives the […]

Network Compliance Teacher Celebrates First Year

AuditLink has recently launched its’ fourth edition of their Network Compliance Teacher (NCT) magazine.  NCT is a collaboration of compliance professionals that span coast to coast.  Originally intended to be authored by CU*Answers clients, NCT 2013 goal is to open its pages beyond the CU*Answers client base and invite other firms that support the compliance […]

CU*Answers Emphasizes the Benefit of PolicySwap

CU*Answers, the West Michigan-based CUSO, announced that its PolicySwap website added earlier in 2012 was still going strong. The site, located at http://policyswap.cuanswers.com, was created with the goal of helping CU*Answers clients reduce each institution’s compliance cost burden. Every policy and procedure shared is reviewed by AuditLink, a part of the CU*Answers Management Services […]