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Member-owned, not-for-profit financial cooperatives that offer savings, loans and payments, regulated separately from banks and often sharing vendors.
Unit21 now lets analysts block cards in Corelation's KeyStone core from inside a case, and Corelation has more than 300 credit union clients. The 300 is Corelation's client list, and the companies did not say how many have the feed running.
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Navy Federal Credit Union is using AI bots that pose as scam victims to block payments to fraud accounts before any of its 14 million members send money. Payments that settle in seconds leave no day-long window to catch a scam, so the credit union is moving its screening ahead of the transfer for members whose deployments make sudden large payments less unusual.
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PSECU, a $10 billion Pennsylvania credit union with 500,000 members, will offer a Google Gemini assistant built into Candescent's banking software. It is the credit union's response to consumers asking ChatGPT and Claude for money help, supplied by a vendor and built on account data those general assistants cannot see.
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An American Banker opinion column reports banks gaining on mobile apps, websites, account management and access while credit unions keep their lead at the branch counter, and it prescribes fintech partnership as the fix.
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Sharetec told its credit unions that backup systems did not have time to take over when a data center lost cooling on Sept. 15. The NCUA cannot examine the vendor; its authority to do that expired.
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Credit unions held $187.1 billion of commercial loans secured by real estate at June 30, up 36% in two years. Citadel marketed positions in its record $50 million Philadelphia office loan to other financial institutions.
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Eighteen percent of credit unions rate AI model risk a critical or high threat against 62% of national banks, yet 71% say they are not prepared, within two points of the national banks' 73%, a pattern that points to a difference in belief, not in staffing.
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