The big picture of split-dollar agreements
Split-dollar life insurance is becoming a more popular executive benefit for credit unions. When executing these agreements, it’s important to consider the big picture by answering these questions: How ...
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Rules, regulations, and relationships: How WSECU spreads compliance management across the enterprise
Every month, a group of senior leaders at WSECU($3.3B, Olympia, WA) gather to review their organization’s appetite for risk, renew its focus on member protection, and break ...
Preparing your credit union for the Coronavirus
The Coronavirus continues to spread rapidly through China, and it’s difficult to find accurate numbers of its victims. Although most China and most countries have done a good job ...
Biometrics invade banking and retail
Banks have been quietly rolling out biometrics to identify customers — verifying them by their fingerprint, voice or eye scan — and retailers like Amazon are getting into the game. Why it ...
Do you know what your employees value?
Practically every employee at any organization has at least entertained the prospect of leaving their current workplace. Whether a fleeting thought or a serious consideration leads them to actively pursue ...
Fraud trends to watch in 2020
Cybercriminals are upping their game for bigger paydays. According to a recent Forbes article, online transactions will remain a favorite target of financial fraudsters in 2020, but they’ll become ...
‘A moment of pause’
Whether he’s shooting portraits of world leaders or everyday people, Platon starts from a place of authenticity. “When I’m photographing a person, it makes sense to take them ...
Puerto Rico’s credit unions stand together in the wake of natural disasters
Residents of southwestern Puerto Rico were on edge when they went to bed on the night of Jan. 6. The ground had shaken hundreds of times over the past 10 ...