Over the last decade, APIs have served as the prime catalyst for the expansion of today’s most popular technologies. In the simplest terms, APIs—or application programming interfaces—allow different software applications to communicate [...]
Many credit union and bank executives dread strategic planning. It’s the same routine year after year, and decisions made at the strategic planning session are rarely addressed again until the next session…a year [...]
For most organizations, the discussion of the benefits and potential of AI is much more widespread than the actual deployment of these technologies across the organization. In fact, most of the use of advanced analytics [...]
No matter if you’re speaking to one person on the phone, a large group at a conference, or in a video that will potentially be seen by thousands on social media, how can you [...]
Fight or flight? This way or that way? Yes or no? Each of these three questions describes a brain under pressure. Could be your brain, could be mine. When it comes to pressure situations, we [...]
In nearly every SENSEI LEADER MOVEMENT workshop someone will complain about being stuck––as an individual or as an organization. Nothing is changing. Sometimes you feel like nothing is changing, but it is. You can’[...]
The first half of 2019 was interesting on multiple fronts. After growing approximately 3 percent in 2018, GDP entered the first quarter of 2019 at a strong 3.2 percent. However, according to the Atlanta [...]
NCUA Chairman Rodney Hood was at the Indiana Credit Union League office Monday to visit with several members of the League board of directors, members of its Governmental Affairs Committee and senior management. Hood, who [...]
NAFCU's Carrie Hunt, in response to 51 banking associations' call for lawmakers to examine the NCUA's efforts and ability to provide proper oversight of the credit union industry, said the bankers' argument had no merit [...]
While credit union CEOs and other executives received healthy salary hikes and bonuses over the past year, the pace of those increases slowed slightly as compared to 2018 for more than half the positions included [...]
Every state banker association is asking congressional tax-writing committees to examine whether credit unions still should be exempt from filing federal tax documents detailing their activities. The 50 state associations and one representing Puerto Rico [...]
Grit is essential for survival. Life gives us challenges and we face most of them when we feel the least capable of handling them. I recently joined toastmasters and during the icebreaker of my first [...]
The United States is a massive market for innovating in the space of banking and financial services, with fintech investment in the U.S. more than doubling to $52.5 billion last year alone. Visa [...]
Data breaches have been all over the news lately, first with the announcement of the settlementof the 2017 Equifax breach and more recently with reports of a new major data breach at Capital One involving [...]
In their July Board meeting, NCUA's Board approved a final rule, which increases the loan value threshold for when a commercial real estate appraisal is not required from $250,000 to $1,000,000. In [...]
