Digitally connected people expect their days to go something like this: Put on an outfit handpicked by Stitch Fix based on preferences, body type and budget. Order a few household necessities from Amazon, recommended from [...]
Branding your credit union or bank does not work without your employees. No matter what you say your brand vision is, if your employees don’t live it every single day it doesn’t matter. [...]
Greetings Compliance Friends! Following NCUA’s final rule on voluntary mergers earlier this year (covered in a previous NAFCU Blog), the NAFCU Compliance Team has received a number of merger-related questions on a variety of [...]
Are your customers engaged? It’s a question many in the financial industry are asking themselves lately. In the age of fintech disruption, it’s more important than ever for financial institutions to reach out [...]
Registration is still open for Wednesday’s free webinar on CUNA’s Awareness Initiative, the second hosted in a series of three hosted by CUNA. The first in the series covered the basics of the “[...]
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger today will be on-site helping Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia (NOVA) build a home for a wounded veteran and his family and raise awareness about the need for [...]
As you are juggle finding just the right gifts and planning the perfect holiday get together, there is one more item that should be on your to-do list…your finances. According to ConsumerReports.org, this [...]
The trend toward digitizing business operations to eliminate labor-intensive and time-consuming paper processes is more than just a passing fad. It has, in fact, grown into a revolution with wide-ranging adoption of innovative digital technologies [...]
2018 has been a remarkable year, one that I will never forget. I’ve personally visited 49 credit unions and participated in 17 conference/educational events this year. I’ve learned a lot from very [...]
Toward the end of each year, thousands of technology and finance folks converge on Las Vegas for Money20/20 USA. This year’s event was mid-October. I have no idea whether Money20/20 is the [...]
John Cassidy, president/CEO of the $982 million Sierra Central Credit Union, called it nothing short of a miracle that its branch was not burned to the ground in Paradise, Calif., where more than 90% [...]
A credit union’s income is largely driven by its loan portfolio, and there is a unique opportunity for even greater loan growth available to institutions willing to go the extra mile in serving immigrant [...]
If you’re a typical bank or credit union, you’re facing more competition than you’ve ever seen before. However, because the industry is enjoying some of the most profitable years in the history [...]
How credit union service organizations structure and seek funding begins with the type of relationship they intend to form with their client owners and investors, says Guy Messick, partner with Messick Lauer & Smith, Media, [...]
The time has come again—time to launch that new promotion. You’ve put on your best creative hat, scheduled the meetings, and now hope the brainstorming sessions yield some unique ideas. It could be [...]
