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The Nebraska Credit Union League works with a number of business partners to deliver products to credit unions that will meet their operational expectations. The working knowledge, technical expertise, and operational understanding of credit unions our business partners have make them ideal suppliers to the credit union industry.

3SI Security Systems
3SI Security Systems, headquartered in Exton, PA is the world leader in cash protection systems designed to recover stolen cash, apprehend criminals, and deter crime. As a leading innovator of smoke, dye, and ink staining and tracking technologies to protect cash, 3SI protects more than 35,000 locations in North America. Their products hide where cash is stored; teller drawers, vaults, safes, ATMs and during ATM cash transport. Our alliance with 3SI began in 1988.

Abound Resources
Abound Resources is a national firm that provides advice and support to credit unions and other communty financial institutions. Its business model includes the evaluation of benefits, costs an risks of third-party relationships.

Advanced Fraud Solutions/TrueChecks
TrueChecks identifies counterfeit demand drafts without compromising the integrity of service at the frontline with financial representatives. TrueChecks^® accomplishes this by analyzing demand drafts for the frontline personnel and gives them instant information.

Agility Recovery
Agility is a premiere provider of business recovery and continuity services, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with distribution centers in Atlanta, Georgia and Mississauga, Ontario. Agility provides comprehensive, packaged recovery solutions, consulting services and testing options to businesses across the United States and Canada. Our alliance with Agility began in March 2006.

Buzz Points
Buzz Points is a community-based, merchant-funded rewards program. The Buzz Points platform combines fisoc’s technology expertise with its passion for developing software that enables deep relationships between credit unions and their members. Your credit union can use the Buzz Points social media marketing and rewards program to encourage and reward a member’s good financial behavior—a marketing tool kit using social media to find new members, uncover new loan opportunities, and cross-sell more products. You can determine which of your products or services are eligible for rewards—gift cards or cash—and the levels at which they can redeem.

Centennial Lending
Centennial Lending provides commercial, construction and mortage lending to credit unions.

CO-OP FInancial Services/Check Management Solutions
CO-OP offers various products including Check Management Solutions (CMS). CMS provides check loss prevention & recovery software for credit unions. Credit unions are able to use the resolver software to determine their options when faced with issues like non-payment, wrong doing, and lost / stolen checks. The software also creates the recovery letters to be sent to the members, drawers, or other financial institutions.

CO-OP Call Center Services
CO-OP offers call center services. With the access and convenience of 24/7 member and lending services, as well as outbound calling, you’ll expand your reach, manage overflow capacity and extend after-hours operations. Added flexibility - All without the costs of in-house call services.

CU Solutions Group
Our association is partnering with CU Solutions Group, a fee-based core service provider, to help us in offering solutions that our credit unions want and need. Every product and service that CU Solutions Group offers in its four divisions - Marketing, Membership Enhancements, Technology, and HRN Performance - are designed to help credit unions like yours serve, grow and remain strong.

Counterfeit Cop
Counterfeit Cop helps identify fraudulent currency, postal money orders, U.S. Government checks, and more.

CU Direct
CUDL is offers point of purchase automobile buying for members, with their exclusive software that allows dealers to communicate directly with credit unions. Their proprietary software automates the auto lending process. CUDL AutoSmart is a powerful website tool that allows members to shop and research autos prior to buying.

Credit Union Service Network
Credit unions have pooled resources together to form a unique and cost-effective alternative to owning and operating individual credit union branches.

CU Succeed
Reach tomorrow’s members today with a comprehensive, affordable and easy-to-manage teen program which includes high-quality printed materials, a website, and more. Save money and time by letting CU Succeed do the work for you.

CUNA Mutual Group
The CUNA Mutual Group is the leading provider of financial services that increases the competitive strength of its credit union customers and the financial health of their members worldwide. We accelerate our customers’ business success through lending, protection, financial, employee and member solutions offerings leveraging unparalleled credit union expertise, strategic partnerships, technological innovations and multiple service channels. How can we help you succeed?

CUNA Strategic Services
CUNA strategic Services works with carefully chosen suppliers to save your credit union money and time by providing the products, services and technology your credit union needs to compete effectively in the modern financial marketplace – negotiating volume pricing and combining the buying power of America’s credit unions to deliver discounts.

Credit Union Calendars
Increase business and improve relationships with the most effective marketing tool – calendars. Calendars are effective because of their low cost, high-perceived value, targeted delivery and high exposure rate. The CUNA Calendar Program provides a variety of styles customized for your credit union with FREE imprinting.

Diebold
Diebold is the leading provider of ATMs in the U.S. and a leading global supplier of self-service systems. In addition to manufacturing state-of-the-art equipment, Diebold addresses multiple credit union needs through comprehensive service solutions surrounding ATM services, security services, deposit automation and branch transformation. Working with Diebold, the original ATM innovator, CUNA Strategic Services has created integrated equipment and service solutions enabling credit unions to securely automate personalized attention to each and every member. Our strategic alliance with Diebold began in 1984.

DieboldDirect
DieboldDirect is your one-stop shop for coin and curency equipment and the supplies you need to support your ATMs, drive-up VAT systems, and credit union branches.

Enterprise Rent A Car
Enterprise offers quality used cars for sale to credit union members at reasonable prices. If a credit union
sends their members to ERAC to purchase a vehicle and is identified as such, then the credit union will be given the financing on that vehicle purcahse.

Expandachek
Provides full image based item processing services and is a one-stop solution provider for Check 21 compliance and operations.

Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress with a mission to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing and mortgage markets. Fannie Mae operates in the secondary mortgage market. Rather than making home loans directly to consumers, the company works with mortgage lenders to help ensure they have funds to lend to home buyers at affordable rates.

FinCrime
FinCrime is sponsored by the state bankers associations in Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. It is open to their member financial institutions and law enforcement. Members of the Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio Credit Union Leagues may also participate through the involvement of those organizations. The concept of FinCrime is to form an information sharing network between banks and law enforcement. FinCrime allows information regarding financial crimes to be entered into a database and then distributed to interested participants in the network. Sharing information allows banks to detect and prevent fraud, improves law enforcements ability to investigate financial crimes and leads to enhanced prosecution.

FIS/CSCU Card Services for CUs
FIS is the industry leader of Credit and Debit Card processing for credit unions. They also manage a host of ancillary products that are also offered to credit unions.

Freddie Mac
Credit unions looking to increase their mortgage business turn to Freddie Mac and the Freddie Mac/Credit Union National Association (CUNA) Alliance. Through the alliance, we offer you exclusive, competitive advantages to help you effectively access the secondary mortgage market and create homeownership opportunities for more of your members.

Fynanz
Fynanz, Inc. is a leading technology provider of custom private student lending programs. The company’s innovative technology puts credit unions in the private student lending business without the need to purchase or install any software. This end-to-end solution includes complete origination, underwriting, servicing and marketing. Fynanz also powers the cuStudentLoans private student loan program. Fynanz was founded in 2007 and is based in New York City.

Harland Clarke
Harland Clarke was formed in 2007 when Clarke American Corporation joined with the John H. Harland Company. Together the companies have over 200 years of combined experience, offering direct marketing services, check delivery and anti-fraud products, contact center services and checks and check-related products to credit unions and their members. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Harland Clarke has been a CSS provider since 2002.

Greenpath Debt Solutions
GreenPath partners with credit unions to bring high-quality financial counseling, financial education and debt management to members. Through Greenpath, credit unions can offer:A free financial assessment that includes a customized budget and action plan; Full-service debt management plans; Housing counseling by HUD-approved experts on default and delinquency, pre-purchase, home-equity loans and reverse mortgages; In-depth credit report reviews; BudgetSmart software that helps members manage their money more effectively; CheckRight, a self-study program on how to manage a checking account; and Financial education workshops and tools.

Group Benefits, Ltd.
GBL is a health Insurance broker from Des Moines, Iowa. GBL is a trusted partner of CUNA Mutual and they represent most of the nationally recognized health insurance carriers. If you need a health insurance quote, GBL would be your one stop shop.

ICUL Service Corporation
ICUL Service Corporation, a subsidiary of the Illinois Credit Union League, is a provider of electronic payment services including prepaid gift cards and reloadable general purpose cards. The Naperville, Ill.-based credit union service organization serves credit unions in 45 states.

Informa Research Services
Informa Research Services is the premier provider of competitive intelligence and mystery shopping services to the financial services industry. Informa conducts daily surveys of retail, lending and business products offered by more than 10,000 financial organizations.

Innovative Technology, Inc.
The Intech partnership offers two fee based products for credit unions. The first is full service data processing services and the second is a complete disaster recovery hot site.

Intuit Financial Services
Intuit Financial Services (formerly Digital Insight), is a leading provider of online banking services to credit unions in the United States. Nearly nine million consumers and businesses, or nearly 10 percent of all online banking users in the United States, actively use Intuit Financial Services' solutions through its nearly 1,800 financial institution clients. The company has been a CSS provider since 2008. Also offers bill pay, web design, and web hosting services.

John M. Floyd & Associates
JMFA, headquartered in Baytown, Texas, is a leader in profitability and performance improvement consulting, helping credit unions add to their non-interest bottom line. We began our alliance with JMFA in 2003. JMFA assists credit unions specifically with Overdraft Privilege® and Earnings Enhancement Programs.

Kansas Corporate Credit Union
Kansas Corporate provides credit unions access to our comprehensive product/service menu, which includes: Correspondent Services, Investment Solutions, Liquidity Solutions, and Technology Services. Kansas Corporate provides unparalleled service in an industry differentiated by premier member service.

MoneyGram
MoneyGram is committed to helping people and businesses by providing affordable, reliable and convenient payment services. An international company, MoneyGram has more than 190,000 locations in 190 countries and territories, allowing credit union members to economically and efficiently move money around the world, or close to home. One of our oldest alliance relationships, MoneyGram has had a strategic alliance with CUNA Strategic Services to offer value-priced transaction services for credit unions for more than 30 years.

Money Mission
This program will help the credit union to teach financial literacy to members between the ages of 15 – 19. As part of this game the members can earn scholarship money at potentially the credit union, state and national levels. This promotes/teaches young members about financial responsibility and will ultimately help them to be more fiscally responsible members having a positive impact on the credit union’s delinquency and charge off ratios long-term.

Newtek The Small Business Authority
The Small Business Authority, powered by Newtek Business Services Inc. (NASDAQ: NEWT) and headquartered in New York City, is a premier provider of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the U.S. Our alliance with Newtek began in February 2003.

OfficeMax
OfficeMax Incorporated (NYSE: OMX), headquartered in Naperville, IL, is a leader in both business-to-business office products solutions and retail office products. OfficeMax customers are served by approximately 35,000 associates through direct sales, catalogs, e-commerce and more than 1,000 stores. Our alliance began with Boise Office Solutions in December 2002. One year later, in December 2003, Boise acquired OfficeMax and the relationship moved forward under the OfficeMax name.

OneID
OneID helps consumers manage their digital identities and helps businesses facilitate fraud-resistant transactions. OneID is reinventing the idea of securing one’s online identity, starting with the elimination of usernames and passwords. For users, OneID makes it easy to securely sign in to websites and make payments online. For credit unions, OneID reduces the friction, fraud and costs associated with authentication and financial transactions, employing a level of security that far exceeds currently available identity systems and is FFIEC compliant.

Ongoing Operations
Ongoing Operations began as an idea among credit union executives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area after Sept. 11, 2001. With many credit unions in the area being located in government buildings, the need to continue to provide member service despite severe security restrictions inspired Ongoing Operations to create a suite of business continuity solutions.

Passageways
Established in 2003, Passageways is the leading provider of portal solutions in the financial services industry. Based out of Purdue University's research park in West Lafayette, Ind., Passageways is committed to delivering innovative solutions to help credit unions streamline business processes, improve collaboration and increase enterprise communication. Passageways has successfully delivered more than 200 credit union portals and has won over a dozen industry awards for various solutions.

Perimeter E-Security
Perimeter E-Security is the trusted market leader of information security services that delivers enterprise-class protection and compliance for businesses of any size. Through its cost-effective security-as-a-software platform, Perimeter offers the most comprehensive compliance, security and messaging services that include but aren’t limited to: hosted email, encrypted email, firewall management and monitoring, vulnerability scanning, host intrusion and prevention, email anti-virus and spam filter, remote data backup and email archiving.

PolicyWorks
PolicyWorks, part of the Iowa Credit Union League, provides staff attorneys to complete your bank secrecy act (BSA) audits and website compliance audits.

PowerPay
PowerPay offers merchant processing solutions for your credit unions business customers that accept MasterCard or VISA for payment of goods & services. PowerPay will assist your credit union as you market these services to your business clients. They are available for joint as you strive to attract new small business & commercial customers.

SunCorp
SunCorp Corporate helps our members grow through investments, loans, liquidity, correspondent services, and more. We consistently strive to make it easier for our members, by providing innovative products and services, so that they in turn can serve their members faster and better.

Switch SuperNAP
Switch SuperNAP, based in Las Vegas, Nev., owns and operates data centers that represent a unique interconnection point of North America’s largest telecommunication providers. Switch is home to an innovative consortium buying ecosystem. By remaining technology agnostic, Switch has created a healthy ecosystem of shared expertise and buying power to provide its customers with the best solutions at the best prices. Within the walls of its powerful data centers are the largest buyers and providers of technology in the world.

TraceSecurity
TraceSecurity is a leading provider of IT security compliance, risk, and audit management solutions. A CSS partner since 2006, the company helps credit unions small and large achieve, maintain and demonstrate IT security compliance, while significantly improving their security posture. TraceSecurity delivers its solutions to credit unions through an integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform backed by expert professional services.

Twenty Twenty Analytics
Twenty Twenty Analytics is the premier loan portfolio analytic service provider for credit unions. The years of credit union industry knowledge, providing risk analysis of commercial and consumer loans, and identifying unique environmental factors that affect credit union portfolios. The team consists of financial consultants and certified public accountants who have experience with audits, due diligence, National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) regulatory exams, and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) standards.

Verafin
Verafin is the leader among credit unions for BSA/AML compliance and fraud detection software. Nearly 500 financial institutions operating on more than 30 different core processing systems chose Verafin because of their innovative approach to risk analysis and detection – they’ve made BSA/AML automation smarter. Verafin surpasses the rules-based approach of other software and looks straight at the behaviors money launderers and fraudsters use to try to sneak past the system. Since our alliance with Verafin in February 2007, hundreds of credit unions have chosen their solution.

VINtek
VINtek is a provider of automotive collateral managment and direct auto finance solutions for banks, credit unions and other automotive lenders.

World Councial of CUs - International Remittance Program
World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), along with its providers, strives to assist credit unions in reaching emerging markets (i.e., immigrant population) by providing credit unions with safe and affordable money transfer products and technologies. By offering high-demand remittance products, credit unions are able to attract and effectively serve potential members in this evolving financial marketplace.

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