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As really hardcore readers of this blog know, my wife has suggested that I am a beater of dead horses. While I respectfully disagree some issues really do get under…

Dave, the mobile personal finance app that helps people avoid overdraft fees, is getting into the banking market, announcing the launch of Dave Banking. It's the latest challenger bank to…

CUNA announced Tuesday that the Awareness initiative’s Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union® campaign will launch in three new states within the next month. Currently running in Minnesota, North…

Asthe debate on overdraft protection continues, NAFCU's Carrie Hunt says credit unions can serve as the solution to the perceived flaws of this vital resource in an op-ed for CU…

Whether you believe in climate change or not, natural disasters seem to be getting worse in recent years. Fires along the West Coast and flooding and tornadoes from the Midwest…

The trade group representing the nation’s community banks is arming its members to battle credit unions on the local level. The Independent Community Bankers of America has identified the instances…

The user provisioning process is an integral part of your credit union’s security. It can often be considered an IT problem, but it is an area that affects the security…

Discover just announced that it is eliminating all fees on its checking and savings accounts, as well as its CDs and money market accounts. Discover's customers will no longer pay…

On a recent trip to New York, I stopped by a bank on Fifth Avenue, where I was greeted by a friendly employee named Pepper. We exchanged a few pleasantries…

There’s a common thread running through financial institution marketing from the biggest to the smallest. Sports. The biggest institutions have their names all over baseball, soccer, golf, football, and many…

Aaron Wadley-Child is a business loans operation specialist at Nusenda Credit Union($2.4B, Albuquerque, NM) whose career at the cooperative began with a high school class for college credit. Wadley-Child, in…

Both the House and Senate are in session this week and will be conducting several hearings of note to credit unions. On Wednesday the House Ways and Means subcommittee on…

Total retail sales increased 0.5 percent in May, and April's sales growth was revised upward from -0.2 percent to +0.3 percent. NAFCU's Curt Long noted that strong gains in consumer…

After I graduated from college in 1983, I moved forward with my plans to pursue a career in banking without any specific ideas of which aspect of the business was…

Almost half of Americans are willing to make payments through their watches or other wearable devices, but security concerns are stopping most people from actually doing it, according to new…

As much as is possible, Apple Federal Credit Union does the heavy lifting when it comes to bringing staff members up to speed on new technologies—which isn’t to say the…

Visa’s “Everywhere you want to be” tagline has never been more of a reality than it is today. Devices that enable payments — voice assistants, smartphones and watches, connected appliances…

I’m not a zealot when it comes to video games. There’s only one game that I play on my son’s Xbox, and that’s FIFA 18 (soccer). Most often, I’m playing…

Every year since 1995, analysts, investors and media look forward to Mary Meeker’s report on the state of the internet. The 333-page “Internet Trends 2019” report is filled with vast…

Credit unions are leading the call for data security legislation because they are “painfully aware” of how lax security can harm individuals’ financial security, CUNA Senior Director of Advocacy Lance…

The Federal Reserve is hosting a webinar June 25 to update members of the Fraud Definitions Community Interest Group on efforts by the new Fraud Definition's Work Group. The work…

Lauren Culp, Filene Research Institute’s Cooperative Trust manager, described four 21st-century credit union models derived from research the Madison, Wis.-based “think and do” tank conducted. She addressed the CUNA National…

The Trump Administration’s urgency to free Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from federal control has some on Wall Street worried that it might happen without the U.S. government providing an…

Content marketing is a kind of marketing strategy designed to attract and nurture inbound leads. It relies on maintaining a consistent and prominent online presence to show up in peoples’…