Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Id.) on Tuesday appeared to link legislation allowing marijuana banking to a proposal to outlaw an Obama Administration initiative that he said allowed banks and credit unions to refuse to [...]
Data analytics is no longer available only to massive technology corporations and big banks. In fact, with access to enough data, even smaller credit unions can join the fun. With several data analytics platforms that [...]
Within the U.S. payments system, tenacity is turning into the new central narrative. No longer are fraudsters satisfied by assuming another person’s identity – they are now focused on creating false identities to commit [...]
Recent estimates by Barclays suggest the U.S. cannabis market — were it legal today — would be worth nearly $30 billion in annual sales and primed to grow by an additional $10 billion in the next [...]
Eight times so far this year a credit union has bought a bank, according to Credit Union Times’ count. Some deals are small – Verve for instance paid $43 million to buy South Central Bank in [...]
When a new marketing officer took over at a large community bank, she fit right in on the institution’s retail side, but she couldn’t get any traction with the business bankers. They told [...]
When a brand new member takes the time (and it’s usually on their lunch hour) to walk into your branch to “move” their checking account - there is no bigger moment than that. Think [...]
I have always been a very big fan of both Roald Dahl, and most especially his book, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Throughout Dahl’s work, he creates magical spaces where children find the joy [...]
With the growing number of fintech companies entering the marketplace, traditional service providers are upping their game to improve the banking experience. As a result, consumers have a lot more choices when it comes to [...]
Recently, a Florida Atlantic University business student interviewed me about writing. He was particularly interested in the amount and type of writing I do in my role as a Communication Director and Consultant. The exercise [...]
Consumers in Kansas and Missouri started seeing Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union® materials Monday as CUNA’s Awareness initiative officially expands to those states. Already active in North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, Minnesota, [...]
Financial institutions around the world are being targeted by a new email phishing campaign which uses HTML file attachments typically used by web servers according to a new report by researchers at Mimecast. According to [...]
The risk of data breaches from internal staff is growing, reports one cybersecurity firm, which says the average cost for an internal breach is $8.7 million. And that figure represents losses that are discovered, [...]
CUES member James Sackett wanted to be involved in his community in some way. He had always known about and loved the idea of credit unions. So, when he moved to Minneapolis and joined a [...]
As I write this, I’m sitting in New Orleans near the banks of the Mississippi River, banks that Hurricane Barry recently threatened to overflow. Fortunately, the Big Easy didn’t experience a catastrophic storm [...]
