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Tips to create a more secure password

Tips to create a more secure password

Think about the passwords you have set for the dozens of work and personal accounts you access every day. Unfortunately, passwords are a pain to create, reset, and maintain. And, without robust logins, you could [...]

Digital future of banking requires new leadership model

Digital future of banking requires new leadership model

The banking industry is trying to respond to an increasingly turbulent business environment, where legacy leadership and existing cultures are being challenged. Not only do leaders need to articulate a vision for a future of [...]

Apple announces Apple Card credit card

Apple announces Apple Card credit card

At Apple’s “show time” services event today, it announced a new Apple Card credit card, promising to improve things about the credit card experience with simpler applications, no fees, lowering interest rates, and offering [...]

A 3-year roadmap to better business intelligence

A 3-year roadmap to better business intelligence

CAP COM Federal Credit Union($1.8B, Albany, NY) has embarked on a data aggregation and analytics journey, using a three-year roadmap to align staff and systems to better understand what it knows about members [...]

Why credit unions should think about income inequality

Why credit unions should think about income inequality

In Chicago, where I live, this article titled ‘The Middle Class is Shrinking Everywhere – In Chicago It’s Almost Gone’ has been shared widely in community development circles.   It is an interesting read on the [...]

DOL issues proposed OT rule, comments due May 21

DOL issues proposed OT rule, comments due May 21

The Department of Labor (DOL) published its proposed overtime rule Friday. Under the proposal, employees with a salary level of $35,308 per year (up from the current $23,660 per year) must be paid [...]

Nominating committee selects 10 for slate in NAFCU Board elections

Nominating committee selects 10 for slate in NAFCU Board elections

Ten candidates have been selected by the NAFCU Nominating Committee for the four open positions in this year's NAFCU Board elections. Two of the 10 are incumbents. NAFCU member credit unions will receive the association's [...]

Adams: Love your people

Adams: Love your people

Patrick Adams is alive and well and eating bacon. That wasn’t a likely prospect five years ago when he suffered a massive heart attack while exercising and was clinically dead for three minutes. The [...]