BLOUNTSTOWN, FL (March 9, 2015) -- Calhoun-Liberty Employees CU (CLECU) is the latest Florida credit union to select CU*SOUTH as its core processing and services partner. With a conversion scheduled for later this spring, CU*SOUTH and Calhoun-Liberty Employees CU are already busy planning this exciting transition.
Based in the Florida panhandle southwest of Tallahassee, CLECU serves the residents of Calhoun and Liberty counties. The credit union operates two branches, one on each side of the time line between the Eastern and Central zones.
“It was the references from other credit unions that led us to believe CU*SOUTH will help us best serve our members,” said CLECU’s CEO Thomas Flowers.
“We’re excited to welcome Calhoun-Liberty Employees CU into our CUSO network,” continued CU*SOUTH CEO Leo Vaulin. “We’re building a collaborative software and service model that’s owned by credit unions – and was designed by credit unions. I’m very happy to hear that our credit union peers recommended us to Mr. Flowers; and I respect the important role that CLECU plays in the lives of the citizens of Liberty and Calhoun counties.”
With only a few months before conversion, Mr. Flowers and his team are readily anticipating the change.
“We’ve been using the same core for almost 30 years,” said Mr. Flowers. “We’re looking forward to utilizing the entire platform’s functionality and moving from a bag phone era to the iPhone 6 era. As technology has grown and improved, we feel that we should offer that same level of fast, quick and cost-effective service to our membership.”
About CU*SOUTH
CU*SOUTH is a credit union-owned cooperative with the mission of growing successful credit unions. Headquartered on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, CU*SOUTH serves the industry-leading CU*BASE® processing system to credit unions of all sizes. CU*BASE is a fully-integrated platform, combining home banking, mobile and text banking, online membership and loan applications with auto-decisioning, collections, back office, automated 5300 Call Reporting, and a complete suite of marketing and management reports and dashboards such as “Where Your Members Borrow”.
CU*SOUTH provides CUSO@Work™ managed services to drive best practices for CU’s to get the most of out of their software investment. Managed services allow credit unions to outsource tasks at a fraction of the cost of a full-time specialist – accounting, collections, compliance, lending, marketing, call center, web design.
As a partner of the cuasterisk.com network – serving over 600 credit unions nationwide - CU*SOUTH provides the most comprehensive offering of information technology tools and services through a collaborative, shared ownership model - with the same great value that credit unions offer their members.