FHFA director nomination hearing scheduled this week
The House and Senate are back in session this week and will consider various legislation. The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee will conduct a nomination hearing on Sandra ...
The latest from John Pettit
Treasury sends $1B in rental aid funds to high-demand areas
The Treasury Department announced Friday that it will allocate more than $1.1 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds to states and cities that spent the first round of ...
Cryptocurrency 101
While cryptocurrency has existed for more than a decade, there’s still room for credit unions to be involved in these digital assets, which now exceed $2 trillion in value, ...
Top 3 priorities for reducing ransomware attack risk heading into 2022
With the hybrid workforce growing exponentially over the past twenty-four months, organizations have seen a drastic rise in ransomware attacks. Malicious emails are up 600% since March 2020, the average ...
How to avoid burnout early in your career
Let’s be real here… Burnout is a problem no matter your seniority! But there’s a reason why I’m focusing on early career professionals in this post… They ...
5 spending predictions for 2022
Though 2021 ended on a note of uncertainty as COVID concerns continued to disrupt consumers’ travel, shopping, and return to work plans, there is hope the current surge will begin ...
Consumer groups to CFPB: Issue tough small business lending rule
A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule to require financial institutions to report data on their lending to minority-owned and women-owned businesses should include as many banks and credit unions as ...
Compliance training: A refresher on credit union staff training requirements
Every so often, we get questions about various training requirements found in the rules and regulations affecting credit unions. We have written about this topic in the past (member only), ...