News & Events

Good reads, good deeds and good people

You know those public service announcements that end with the familiar phrase, “The more you know . . .”? That’s how we look at our “News & Events” section. This is where you will find all sorts of useful information – from industry news to thought leadership in the form of blogs and videos, to company announcements highlighting innovative services, new members of our CIS family and more exciting news and events. All of which leave you, we hope, saying, “How about that – the more you know…”

Exciting News from Fannie Mae® & Appraisal Firewall

In continuation of efforts to make the home valuation process more efficient and accurate, Fannie Mae is transitioning to various options to establish a property’s market value, with the option matching the risk of the collateral and the loan transaction. Focused on preparing for the future of appraisals, Appraisal Firewall, along with Star Appraisal Management Company, Credit Information Systems & Accurate Financial Services, will be prepped and ready to deliver the options to lenders for Value Acceptance, Value Acceptance + Property Data, and Hybrid Appraisals as of 4/15/2023. For more information, click here.

Dreaming BIG in Nebraska City with the NMA

"Dream Big on Mortgage Street" was this year's theme for the Nebraska Mortgage Association's Annual Conference at The Lied Lodge Conference Center in Nebraska City, September 20th and 21st. The group was energized and educated by the outstanding speakers and important industry information. Both Star Appraisal Management Company and Credit Information Systems were Gold Sponsors for the conference. Our team loved reconnecting with so many of our long time clients and meeting industry leaders.

New Website Launch for Credit Industry Leader

June 1, 2021

If you want to know more about a client-focused company that’s been in business for more than 100 years, go now to the new website for Credit Information Systems, https://www.creditinfosystems.com/. This new website, which launched on June 1st, tells the story of Credit Information Systems, a third-generation family-owned company, dedicated

Amy Blubaugh, Marketing Director

402-320-2398 amy@creditinfosystems.com

Over the last thirty years, Amy Blubaugh has been honing her marketing skills while gathering experience and learning from each of her diverse career opportunities and co-workers.

As a college student studying communications and public relations in the early 1990s, Amy worked as a research phone representative at a radio station. It was with this job, and through several other tasks assigned at the station, Amy noticed she was drawn to events and messages generating a response.

Upon college graduation from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1993, Amy accepted a Sales Assistant position for KEZO-FM (later, Journal Broadcast Group). Eager to support the sales team with communication to clients and office management, she was also excited to help with station events and programming needs. Her dedication and the talents she observed from her co-workers helped her learn to listen to the customer’s needs and create turnkey marketing programs.

In early 1995, Amy moved on to Redstone Communications as a Media Buyer. Broadening her media knowledge, she was invigorated by people with the same goal of garnering a response by delivering the right message to the right customer via the right mix of media.

After a short return to radio, Amy found herself taking her marketing knowhow to the finance industry as a Product Manager for First National Bank Omaha’s bank card division. Working for eight years with direct mail, event marketing, operations and emerging forms of electronic media was a great way to learn to project profitability, measure response and properly analyze results.

As both the Partnership Marketing Manager and Acquisition Manager for Omaha Steaks, Amy spent the next ten years working with various companies throughout the country developing marketing programs to sell product, acquire new customers, and generate leads and awareness of the business. It was with this position Amy was able to improve both her marketing analyst and creative abilities, producing reports to track real time results and make tweaks to print and digital ads to improve marketing efforts.

Amy began her four years at Mutual of Omaha in late 2015 managing product launches, applying process to all areas of marketing, testing print and online campaigns and maneuvering marketing projects in a very regulated industry.

Excited to be the first marketing-focused member of the Credit Information Systems team and work within the business-to-business area, Amy joined as Marketing Director in December of 2019.