It may feel like summer has just begun, but soon enough parents everywhere will rejoice as the weather begins to cool and their kids return to school. The back-to-school season is an unusually emotional time [...]
Seventeen. Senior in high school. College is coming. I am a small fish just learning how to fend for myself. I have lived as a child for 17 years, but that is all going to [...]
I once met a group of remarkable young people who taught me a valuable lesson I’ll never forget…If you want to see change, you have to be and speak change. That simple formula [...]
Yes, it’s still ridiculously hot outside and school hasn’t even started yet, but Christmas is coming. Thanksgiving is roughly four months away, which means if you want to pay cash for those Black [...]
In today’s financial services landscape, credit unions are facing more competition than ever before. Technology is changing how people want to interact with all service providers, including their credit unions. New market entrants are [...]
Erin Coleman challenged CUNA Management School students to “dip your toes in the water of innovation” Thursday in Madison, Wis. Coleman, senior impact director for the Filene Research Institute, took students through several innovation exercises [...]
A Virginia jury found the former board chair of New Bethel FCU guilty Wednesday of three felony counts of forging a contractor’s signature on financial documents. Mark M. Whitaker, Portsmouth city council members, was [...]
In the 1970s, there was a perfume commercial that said, “If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper.” While that may work on TV, it probably isn’t a great strategy for problem-solving with [...]
10 years ago… There were about 8,080 credit unions. Today there are 5,500. Our industry held $832 billion in assets. Today? More than $1.4 trillion. 11 percent of mobile phones were “smart” [...]
In January, Orange County’s Credit Union ($1.6B, Santa Ana, CA) brought together 40 employees for a good ol’ gab fest. The roundtable meeting was the first in a new quarterly gathering of member [...]
As a leader, it is easy to run with our ideas and immediately put them into play. Conversely, it is not as easy to ask for input on our ideas. We may phrase our questions [...]
Two members of the Senate Banking Committee called for board/commission oversight of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection during the confirmation hearing of Kathleen Kraninger, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead Bureau. Kraninger [...]
The House Thursday passed the Financial Services and General Government appropriation's bill, which houses a two-year delay of the NCUA's risk-based capital (RBC) rule, among other NAFCU-backed provisions. This is the third time this RBC-delay [...]
If you travel for your job, you know it’s the worst feeling to get sick when you’re away from the comforts of home. Since you can’t take your home with you, it’[...]
We live in one of the easiest countries in the world in which to start a business, be successful in our careers and/or have a multitude of opportunities at our fingertips. There are countless [...]
