Accessible Design is Good Design No person should struggle with or be limited by technology to access their financial information or complete their day-to-day banking needs. Yet that isn’t always the case for millions [...]
If you are hitting the open road this summer, prepare to pay more at the gas pump. According to CNN, gas prices are expected to increase 14% over last summer. Thankfully, that won’t stall [...]
I’ve heard about the benefits of meditation for years, and about seven years ago, I bought a book on how to meditate. It sat on my bookshelf for years as I accumulated additional books [...]
A panel of four young credit union professionals offered advice to peers at the 2018 CUNA Young Professionals Conference in Madison, Wis. The discussion included topics such as responding to myths about millennials, taking an [...]
The number of checking accounts has fallen by almost 100 million in the last six years, thanks to competition from fintech products and companies such as Walmart, Starbucks and Apple, according to new research from [...]
A few months back, I shared my first audio post. It was incredibly well received. In that I enjoyed it and other people (probably) listened to it. With such a successful start, how could I [...]
Because we focus so much on the perils of financial risks, it’s easy to overlook other areas of risk that present a threat to the bottom line. When one of your employees uses a [...]
Motor City, meet Mortgage City. After decades of epic decline and decay, Detroit is undergoing a dramatic, if uneven, resurgence, led by Quicken Loans, which overtook Wells Fargo this year as the largest mortgage lender [...]
How exactly does Enron make money? That was the gist of the big question reporter and writer Bethany McClean asked then Enron-CEO Jeff Skilling during what was perhaps the biggest interview of her career as [...]
No longer a tween, my son becomes a teenager today. It’s hard to believe that I now have a 13-year-old. It seems like just yesterday he was my inquisitive little buddy crawling around on [...]
As voters start to head to the polls for the 2018 primary elections, CUNA and credit unions will be supporting credit union-friendly candidates around the country. In Tuesday’s elections, credit unions are backing two [...]
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger outlined a number of top legislative items still pending before Congress and asked leaders in the House and Senate in a letter Monday to work with the association to [...]
Having a good credit score not only affects your loan interest rates but it can also mean the difference in getting that job you’ve applied for or moving into your perfect apartment. In general, [...]
When I first started my career in credit unions, the world was a different place. It was a world with no internet, tape based backups, green bar paper, and IT was called “Data Processing”. It [...]
In 1973, “Three Is a Magic Number" premiered as the pilot episode of the “Schoolhouse Rock!” series developed for Saturday morning children’s programming on the television network ABC. The title song and its accompanying [...]
