Women in America represent an underutilized economic resource that can increase organizational effectiveness. Women represent a market demographic with huge, dominant buying capacity. Despite the fact that more women than men complete higher education, they [...]
The human resources department has to deal with a difficult combination of paper, compliance and records management. These challenges are accompanied by security concerns and any number of regulatory requirements, depending on your organization’s [...]
Drawing from their separate areas of expertise, Manuel Hochheimer, Janet McNeilly, and Jeanette Radmer teamed up to identify the Spokane Valley, Wash., credit union’s target demographics and introduced initiatives to broaden its market share [...]
by. Lisa Hochgraf I chose to attend CUES' ski and learn conference--Execu/Summit--March 9-14 in Vail, Colo.--for the first time this year, because I anticipated that the stellar speaker line-up will give me much [...]
by. Anthony Demangone For all I gripe about email, it is a powerful tool that is here to stay. At least for a while. This is what Kate thinks of email. That being said, even [...]
by. Henry Meier I’ve always loved the expression that if you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish he eats for the rest [...]
by. Joe Swatek When your financial institution opens a new account, do you make contact with your new customer or member? How soon? If a consumer has a problem or question, how quickly do you [...]
Even as new ways to pay bills and make purchases are springing up nearly every month, consumers continue to love their plastic. The average American consumer has several cards in his wallet where the collection [...]
Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008? When the fourth largest investment bank filed for bankruptcy? There was a tremendous uproar from the public and government about the economic impact of the downfall. [...]
Have you ever noticed that couples aren’t always on the same page financially? They often make financial decisions in different ways. It’s important to understand what criteria matters to each spouse when making [...]
A recent U.S. Tax Court ruling has set a lot of heads spinning in the IRA administration world, running counter as it does to more than two decades of IRS guidance. In the case [...]
by. Anthony Demangone Today, I need your help. Back in 2012, I asked you to list some challenges. Challenges for your credit union. And personal challenges. Here were the results. Well, I need your help [...]
by. Georgann Smith The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) recently issued guidance titled “Social Media: Consumer Compliance Risk Management Guidance,” which applies to financial institutions (FIs) supervised by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ([...]
by. Ron Daly If you've ignored every media outlet for the past week, you might not know that we've had a lot of snow in the DC Metro area. With a foot or more of [...]
by. Jonathan Lay At CU Grow, we talk a lot about the humanized digital economy. So what exactly do we mean by this? Let’s break it down. The Evolution of Economies Some of you [...]
