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Credit Unions, CUSOs Fighting Fraudsters

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Credit unions across the country are on high alert for scammers looking to take advantage of members during the pandemic and are stepping up fraud prevention efforts as a result,” according to PYMNTS’ April Credit Union Tracker® done in collaboration with PSCU. ” Phishing, Smishing and the Value of Education .

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Affinity Federal Credit Union On The Importance Of Accelerating Digital Transformations

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Credit unions (CUs) and other financial institutions (FIs) across the country have made leaps and bounds in their efforts to digitize services in recent years to meet an already-growing consumer demand. Headquarters Federal Credit Union, created to serve its employees.

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CheckAlt, NXTsoft Partner To Boost Real-Time Integrations

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The team-up will help to speed up onboarding by improving connections between CheckAlt, core providers and credit unions or banks for LoanPay, the loan processing solution utilized by CheckAlt. Even more importantly, this integration also provides real-time access to consumers.”.

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CUs Use AI, Cloud-Based Tools To Drive Member Engagement

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Consumers’ migration to using contactless payment methods more often for their speed and convenience was only accelerated during the onset of the pandemic last year. Around The Credit Union Landscape . Affinity Federal Credit Union On Prioritizing Digital Transformations, Digital Upgrades.

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Credit Union Innovations Bring In New Payments Flows

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The April 2020 New Payment Flows edition of PYMNTS’ Credit Union Innovation Playbook series, a PSCU collaboration, looks into the credit union (CU) space at a pivotal moment: Many concepts, from eating to shopping to traveling and, of course, how we pay, have changed forever. CUs value innovation that benefits members.

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NY Fed: Credit Applications, Acceptances Plunge During Pandemic

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A new survey has revealed the steep plummet the consumer credit market took as the pandemic began, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported. 21) from its latest Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) Credit Access Survey , which showed most credit applications and acceptance rates falling sharply after February this year.

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Moving Credit Unions From In The Wallet To Top Of Wallet

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Among the most important questions to arise from that general trend is what credit unions must do to take advantage of that opportunity — more specifically, to move from in the wallet to top of wallet. This is a similar investment on the services side.” Without payments, a credit union goes back to being a savings and loan.”.