Tekkies

TruStone Financial Credit Union earned the 2025 Finopotamus Tekkie Award for Innovation by modernizing its digital infrastructure through advancements in AI and NLP, data analytics and automation, website and CMS innovation, digital engagement tools, and cybersecurity, all aimed at enhancing the member experience and operational efficiency.

Centris Federal Credit Union won the 2025 Finopotamus Tekkie Award for Increased Efficiency for its innovative overhaul of its member dispute process, which streamlined internal operations and improved the member experience.

"We know that continually expanding technology and incorporating the latest advancements is the best way to both grow and to provide our members with convenience, personalized service, and 24/7 accessibility,"

Providing life changing resources.

Why looking beyond credit scores can make sense.

A no-code, industry first offering.

"We were honored to receive the Game Changer Tekkie Award — this recognition is a reflection of our team’s passion for creating meaningful, secure member-first technology."

“I am delighted. Especially the work that (Finopotamus) does. It is a validation of the time, effort, and the partnerships that we have built with credit unions over the last several years."

Nominations are now open for our fifth annual celebration of credit union technology.

The awards recognize outstanding achievement in credit union technology in 2023

Freedom First CU: Making Small-Dollar Loans More Efficiently

Closing a digital experience gap.

Supporting credit unions in their quest to improve the financial well-being.

People really can help people--SELCO CCU proves it.

Jovia Financial Leverages Union Credit to Grow Membership in New Ways

At American Heritage FCU, Data and Innovation Go Hand in Hand

Helping patients leads to new revenue source.

This is going to be an exciting year for the Tekkies!

Chief Technology and Security Officer Travis Frey joined Dover, Del.-based Dover Federal Credit in 2016.

By Roy Urrico. LAFCU needed a way to provide an easier, more engaging digital experience for members.

By W.B. King In what is a Finopotamus Tekkie Award first for this category, Glia and Member Driven Technologies (MDT) have nobly tied for...

With an increasingly mobile membership, this credit union began exploring mobile marketing technology in 2019.

By Roy Urrico. Pinal County Federal Credit Union (PCFCU) wins the 2023 Tekkie Award for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.

By W.B. King As a deposit heavy financial institution catering to teachers, their family members, and others invested in the education...

Burbank, Calif.-based UMe Credit Union had been on Jack Henry’s Symitar core processing platform for decades ...

The $361 million Harrisonburg, Va.-based Park View Federal Credit Union is the winner of the 2023 Tekkie Award for Fintech Adoption.

By W.B. King Persistently focused on member-driven growth, 4Front Credit Union, which supports more than 100,000 members and 18 branches,...

The annual awards celebrate the best of the best in credit union technology.

The clock is ticking, but there's still time to nominate!

Nominations for the 2023 Tekkies close June 5.

Finopotamus, 03/22/23

With the year winding down, the Finopotamus team wanted to take one last look at the 2022 Tekkie Awards...

There were so many amazing entries, honorable mentions were definitely called for.

The awards, co-sponsored by Credit Union tech-talk, recognize outstanding achievement in credit union technology in 2021 July 28, 2022;...

By W.B. King Recognizing the need for progressive financial literacy programs that could benefit its 97,000-plus members, 4Front Credit...

By Roy Urrico. The $9. 9 billion Marlborough, Mass.-based Digital Federal Credit Union, is the winner of the 2022 Tekkie Award for Lending.

By W.B. King Sometimes the best way to achieve success is by recognizing weakness. This was the case for Wescom Credit Union when...

In May 2020, Firefly CU and TruStone Financial CU announced their intent to merge, representing the largest CU merger of equals ever.

Lebanon Federal Credit Union had a goal to increase the number of cross sales among existing members ...

By Roy Urrico. Ben Maxim of MSU Federal Credit Union wins Finopotamus' Technologist of the Year award.

At GAC, Finopotamus co-founder John San Filippo had a chance to sit down with his old friend Mike Lawson to film an episode of CUbroadcast.

Nominations can be submitted by the credit union itself, by a technology provider, or by a PR agency.

Watch Finopotamus co-founder John San Filippo on CUbroadcast.

The awards, co-sponsored by Credit Union tech-talk, recognize outstanding achievement in credit union technology in 2020

By John San Filippo Meridian Credit Union is the largest credit union in the province of Ontario and the second largest in Canada. The...

By John San Filippo Like many credit unions, Nuvision Federal Credit Union was saddled with an antiquated loan preapproval process. The...

By W.B. King Among the host of lessons learned from the pandemic was the need for a streamlined self-service platform that allows members...

By W.B. King In most instances, a credit score below 650 severely limits a person’s ability to borrow money at a reasonable interest...

By Roy Urrico. Community First CU and Delta Community CU , co Tekkie winners for COVID-19 Response.