One reason is that the first name field is limited to 12 characters when running QualiFile (ChexSystems). If the member's name is longer than 12 characters, the scan must be run manually via their website.

Whenever a QualiFile (risk assessment) scan is completed, a note will be added to the member’s Audit Tracker record. Audit Tracker records are stored with the base share (000) account record. Each credit union specifies the Memo Type codes they want to use for analysis purposes.

To run a QualiFile risk assessment scan on a non-member joint owner, follow the steps in the related link below.

Of course we are always happy to assist you in explaining system features to your auditors and examiners. We will be glad to talk directly to your examiner to explain not only how the tools and security features work, but also the strategic ideas behind why things work they way they do and the direction in which we are heading. Please contact a CSR or our CEO directly if you need help working with your examiners.

CU*BASE only supports those with a valid US address for our QualiFile interface. If a member has a foreign address, you would need to process that through the website manually.

While audio response originally mirrored the functionality of o nline , the paths for those two channels have diverged greatly as online banking has grown and expanded over the past several years. For example, while online banking offers an optional feature to allow members to update personal information online, no such equivalent feature exists in audio response. Additionally, members can no longer make transfers from their membership to another membership and cannot request check withdrawals.

Yes, CU*BASE supports risk based lending. CU*BASE provides tools for pricing loans as based upon the Credit Score/ Paper Grade received. A credit union should check with its applicable credit bureau(s) for Decisioning Products available to facilitate this process.

The differences between the Loan/Share Trial Balance Review and the Loan Risk Analysis Report are: The Loan/Share Trial Balance Review is pulled with beginning of day totals, does not include loan category 99, but does include loans with a risk score of 0. The Risk Score Analysis Report is pulled from end of day totals, does not include loan category 99 (if excluded in the response options), and does not include loans with a risk score of 0.

When you see the 'pass decision' status, this means that the application passed your filters and then passed the model. The underwriting ratios are not a hard stop and will not cause an application to pass or fail. Based on the workflow, a model is requested and a decision has already been made by the time those ratios calculated. The ‘fail’ flag in the underwriting ratio is simply a visual indicator to the loan officer that the ratio is potentially higher than normal.   More...

Some methods your credit union may use to mitigate the risks include: Your credit union may restrict a member from opening these loans online by restricting the member from having online banking access. Your credit union may opt to make a special certificate product or savings product for Deposit Secured Loans and limit those members who may open these types of accounts. Your credit union may wish to consider the range of balances for your savings accounts/certificates querying table MEMBER1/ME  More...

IMPORTANT NOTE: When It’s Me 247 was updated in 2021, the “See” option shown on here was made unavailable. There are two major points to consider when thinking about allowing members to see information beyond the account to which they are actually logged in. Both extend beyond online banking to consider a financial institution’s role and responsibility in protecting member private data via all access channels, from the teller line to a back office employee answering   More...

Certain controls that may be used by a lender, or even by It’s Me 247 when a member submits a loan application, are not evaluated by the system-generated Deposit Secured loans. As long as a member has access to online banking, a PIB profile that allows loan applications, and has a certificate of a Certificate Type/Dividend Application that allows Deposit Secured loans, that member has the ability to open a Deposit loan online, up to the available funds on that CD/checking/savings account.  More...

There are two methods used to track delinquent loans for reporting purposes in CU*BASE: Method One (for Collections tracking) We have always tracked delinquency in two separate fields for “Months” and ‘Days” in the member files. When a loan is 30 days delinquent, it shows as “0 Months, 30 Days” delinquent. When a loan is 31 days delinquent, it is “1 Month, 0 Days” delinquent. A month is always considered 30 days regardless of the actual number o  More...

There are two primary reasons we charge this fee: Our belief that we should do our best to keep our fees down when credit unions do not earn. This is why, for example, It's Me 247 mobile web is offered free to our credit unions. It's also behind our constant pressure to reduce fees where CUs have no basis or belief they can charge for a defensive, relationship service. Charging for these services in this manner fund other areas where the direct expenses cannot easily be identified wi  More...

Yes, if any non-return fees are assessed to a savings accounts and you have the Reg. DD disclosure activated for your statements. (This new feature was implemented in June 2010.) Although it is rare for a savings account ever to be charged a non-return fee, one example that might cause this would be if you had debit cards that were tied exclusively to a savings account. If the fee amounts are zero (NSF current period, NSF YTD, ANR current period, ANR YTD), then the NSF Fee Summary box will not  More...

Online Banking continue to work just fine whether you decide to activate PIB or not. Yo u should not activate PIB without some careful planning and preparation. You need a plan. A plan for marketing the change to members. A plan to train your staff. A plan for rolling out the changes with an acceptable level of disruption to members and staff. A plan to handle the increase in phone calls and frustrated members. A plan to make this part of your process for opening new memberships.   More...

There are three choices. 1. Manually add the estimated finance charges to the balance of the account and have the member make the full payoff at that time. Then clear the cumulative balance on the individual buckets to ensure that there are no finance charges assessed on the account. To do this you will launch Tool #20 Update Account Information. Select the credit card account and then select F16/Chg Type Maint. Select the individual bucket and select the Maintenance action code. In the cumulat  More...

No. PIB is a layered security solution , which is one of the three methods recommended by the NCUA to comply with the “Guidance on Authentication in Internet Banking Environment” (letter 05-CU-18). Remember that you only need to select one of the three available methods. (The other two methods are multi-factor authentication, and “other controls,” the NCUA’s way of allowing for technology that doesn’t even exist yet.) Although the term “multi-factor   More...

CU*Answers has a rolling schedule of network security audits and assessments including internal and external penetration testing. We do not limit the scope of these tests to just the online banking environment. We also do not publish the results or reports from these tests for security reasons. The test results are reviewed by our Executive Team, our Board of Directors (made up of peer credit union CEOs), as well as examiners from the NCUA and state regulatory agencies. They are also reviewed b  More...

What This Message Means: This appears when the member has tried 3 times to enter their password incorrectly. The message does instruct the member to click I forgot my password and answer all three Security Questions to reset the password themselves. But if the member doesn't know their password or their security questions, they will need to contact the CU. BE CAREFUL: This is a scenario that presents the most risk to your members. If a bad guy finds out a member's name, account nu  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 settings that control how this works are part of Tool #558 NSF/Overdraft Transfer Configuration , on the Overdraft Protection Activation screen. There are two flags for ANR/courtesy pay: Use Negative Balance Limits for Authorizations and Use Negative Balance Limits for Posting . They control whether the member's ANR limit is added when determining the available balance amount. There are four different combinations of these flags: Authorization Flag Posting Flag Description of Result  More...

Delinquent fine calculations are based on whichever Delinquent Fine Code is attached to the loan. Every credit union has a Delinquent Fine Code of 0 (zero) which is reserved for No Delinquency (no delinquent fines assessed). In order to prevent a loan from calculating delinquent fines, the credit union would need to change the Delinquent Fine Code to the 0 fine code. The Delinquent Fine Code field can be maintained through Tool #20 Update Account Information.

When you use the filter buttons on the File Maintenance Inquiry dashboard (Tool #159: Audit File Maintenance Inquiry (CUFMNT)), indicators note which programs, fields/columns, and files/tables AuditLink has flagged as “critical” for auditing teams to monitor on a daily basis. You can quickly sort by that indicator and select only those items for a quick scan of maintenance that directly affects member accounts. Below is a listing of these critical items. Columns/Fields Field Why   More...

In one of three ways: Note: The term 'subscriber' refers to your 'member'. Electronic Payments (ACH) - Fiserv's preference is to send all payments electronically. However in the Risk Model format it is not always feasible. Fiserv submits the merchant payment (via the fed) from a Fiserv settlement account the same day we submit the debit (via the fed) to the subscriber account. Fiserv is taking the risk on the payment. Electronic payments are typically sent when the subscr  More...