CNS offers our clients a variety of solutions to maintain software hygiene on their networks. Most of these solutions are automated, and with user cooperation to complete reboots, it's relatively easy to keep your systems up to date with current software versions. However, there are some important limitations to the automated processes that are important to understand. This article presents those considerations. For Complete Care Clients that do NOT Elect Third Party Patching Services:   More...

Using CU*BASE to Comply with New Rules for Tracking Beneficial Ownership FinCEN has issued new rules under the Bank Secrecy Act that require financial institutions to identify and verify the identity of the beneficial owners of all legal entity members (corporations, etc.). Under the final rule, credit unions are required to have written procedures to identify and verify beneficial owners of legal entity members who open new accounts on or after May 11, 2018. In addition to identifying and coll  More...

The Miscellaneous Receipt Monthly Analysis Report (Tool #533) can be used to print all 25 characters of the transaction description, and should be used for balance and reconciling the General Ledger.

The system will advance the next payment due date depending on the payments made during the “payment period” window, which runs from due date to due date (which is not always calendar month). Once the next payment period begins, any payments made will count towards the payment amount due until it is fully satisfied, at which point the due date will advance to the next payment period. Payments may still be made during the current payment period; however, any overpayments will be c  More...

When setting up the loan request, enter a First payment date that is the appropriate month-end date. For example, if creating a loan request on August 25, you would specify that the first payment is due on September 30. Then enter a 31 into the Payment day field. This will trigger the system always to use the last day of any given month going forward (31, or 30, or 28 or 29 for February). To adjust this on new loan requests going forward, set the Day of first payment as 31 using Tool #470 Loa  More...

What report is available to review potential Approved Positive, Settled Negative (APSN) debit card transactions? To allow CU*BASE credit unions to manually review and, potentially, refund Automated Non-Return (ANR) and Insufficient Funds (NSF) fees for potential Approved Positive, Settled Negative (APSN) debit card transactions, the Asterisk Intelligence team has constructed a query that attempts to identify suspect transactions. A “AP/SN Fee Posting Report” is generated from this Qu  More...

In this situation , the most important piece of information you need to know is whether the loan category uses Escrow Partial Pay . You can determine this by taking the following steps : Launch Tool #458 Loan Category Configuration Enter the correct Loan Category code Select F17 - Payment Controls See whether or not Allow teller to post partial payments is checked If partial payments are allowed on the loan , see whether or not Allow partial escrow payments is checked If partial paym  More...

Tips for Recognizing a Fraudulent Check What is a Fractional? A fractional is used to determine the financial institution of the share draft if the MICR line is ever damaged or torn off: 2 digit city and state prefix pre-assigned by “Accuity” (in the example, the prefix is 25 – see red below) Digits 5-8 of the routing number and transit number indicating the institution identifier (in the example, this is 5678 – see blue below.) First 4 digits of the routing and transit n  More...

You can schedule the AFT payment to pay the amount in full every time (for credit cards or lines of credit). Making this selection allows the member to pay the LOC or credit card off every time a transfer is performed. (The recommended frequency with this AFT payment method is Monthly.) For LOCs , this means pay whatever the current balance on the loan is at the time the transfer is performed. If the AFT payment amount will result in an overpayment on the loan, the transfer amount will be adj  More...

In accordance with NACHA operating rules, the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service has changed two of the company IDs used for RRB payments effective September 25. The first monthly RRB payments affected by this change will be dated October 1, 2014. Starting with RRB payments dated September 25, the ‘3’ in the first position of the Company ID field will be changed to a ‘9’ as detailed below. ACH Field Was (prior to September 25) Currently used  More...

In online banking, members see both their Tiered Services points (member points) and possible points. Member points are granted for the highest aggregate balance range for which the member qualifies. For example if a member receives points for having an aggregate balance of over $25 , 000 in loans, the member does not also receive points for any of the other loan aggregate ranges. Possible points are calculated in the same manner as member points. Members with higher aggregate balances c  More...

What happens is that the delinquent notice level indicator on the member's account retains the last level until the loan is brought current. Therefore, all members who had a level 1 notice already sent are showing they completed level 1 and therefore will not send another level 1 even though it is now set at 11 days versus the old setting of 5 days. This applies all the way up the line. This means that all those that did get a level 1 notice at five days won’t generate a notice until  More...

The previous calendar month totals for principal, interest, escrow and fees come from the TRANS2 file and are captured as indicated below. Principal last month Tran code 22/All tran types = add PRINCP (principal amount) Tran code 23/ Tran type not 60 or 61 = add PRINCP Tran code 23/ Tran type 61 = subtract TRAMTP (Transaction amount) Tran code 24/ Tran type 85 = add PRINCP Tran code 25/ Tran type 95 = subtract PRINCP (Type 60 is fine payment and 61 is escrow payment. Type 85 is credit/post  More...

The following Reason Codes are used with the A2A processing: 00 - Payment accepted 01 - Invalid bank routing number 02 - Invalid checking account number 07 - Algorithm code invalid 08 - Invalid alternate company 09 - Missing or incomplete data in URL 10 - Invalid date format 11 - Invalid access number 16 - Bad password 17 - Invalid User ID 18 - Transaction already processed 19 - Account info does not match 20 - Invalid credit card number 21 - invalid credit card expiration date 22 - Credit card   More...

The decay rate is an analytical term used to describe the manner in which non-maturity deposits (NMDs) run off or “mature” over time as members leave the institution for whatever reason—relocation, a job transfer, retirement, dissatisfaction with service, and so on. A decay rate of 25%, for example, means that 25% of the beginning balances in a particular account such as shares will be permanently withdrawn in the first year. In the second year 25% of the remaining balances will be withdrawn and  More...

Launch Tool #145 ATM/Dbt/Crdt: Audit Card Status Changes , locate the activity record (the User/Employee ID column will say ONLINE STS ), select it and choose Additional Status Information. The following vendor response codes may be sent from STAR/PSCU: ■ 00 - Successful ■ 25 - Record Not on File (P) Card not in CMA ■ 26 - Record Already on File (AM) Card already activated ■ 29 - Unsuccessful (any other denial code) SGD Activation not supported, any other problems with processing the trans  More...

This calculation uses the standard calculation for daily interest on a loan, using a 365-day simple daily calc type with the current balance (CURBAL) and the rate on the loan account (MEMBERx) record. For example, imagine a written off loan with a current principal balance of $25,000 and a rate of 14.50%: 14.50% 36500 0.000003973 daily interest factor 0.000003973 $25,000.00 $0.10 daily interest amount Keep in mind: This process always uses the 365-day interest (simple daily) calculation, even  More...

As of April 2023, CU*Answers has 150 credit union owners in 25 states.

WESCO Net is an authorized Dell reseller and offers computers pre-configured for your network with IBM iSeries Client Access, Seagull Jwalk and Gold already installed. WESCO Net will also apply all Microsoft Critical Updates and Service Packs prior to delivery so you can be assured your new computer is completely up-to-date. Let us take care of all the work, you just take it out of the box and plug it in. Contact a WESCO Net representitive at 616-974-1174 or the Systems Department at 800-327-34  More...

The phone number for general support at Dell is 1-800-624-9896 . Be prepared to give Dell the 7-character service tag ID which is on the computer case. dell optiplex

Contact Dell Support at 800-624-9896. You will need to have the express service code and service tag available. These items can be found on the workstation. Explain what is going on to the Dell technician and you will be asked to perform a series of troubleshooting steps. If this is a serviceable request, the technician will inform you of the next step to take whether it be an on-site visit, a shipped replacement, etc. This Dell service will be no charge provided the hardware is still under warr  More...

Contact Dell Support at 800.624.9896. You will need to have the express service code and service tag available, which can be found on the workstation. Explain what is going on to the Dell technician and you will be asked to perform a series of troubleshooting steps. If this is a serviceable request, the technician will inform you of the next step to take whether it be an on-site visit, a shipped replacement, or what have you. This Dell service will be of no charge provided the hardware is st  More...

The easiest way to find out the status of the warranty is to call Dell. The first thing that should be done is find the Express Service Code . This is a 10-digit numerical code that is located on the PC. Once the Express Service Code is found call Dell Customer Support at 1-800-456-3355.

We take a snapshot of the loan as of the end of the month (current balance, rate, minimum payment) and amortize it to determine how long it will take to pay it off. If it will be more than 2.5 years (30 months), then we round to 3 years and include an additional statement that shows the minimum payment required to pay the loan off in 3 years. (See the link below for more about what determines which lines appear on the statement).

The marginal cost of funds is the additional or incremental cost associated with raising a dollar of new funds. For example, if a share account has balances of $10 million at a current cost of 2%, the annual cost is $200,000. If the rate is raised to 2.5% in an attempt to bring in say, $1 million in new deposits, the incremental dollar cost would be ($11 Million x .025)-$200,000= $75,000. This results in a marginal cost of $75,000/$1 Million=7.5% rather than 2.5%. Viewed another way, in additi  More...