by. Henry Meier When it comes to the CFPB and the House Financial Services Committee, I have taken the Committee’s criticisms of the Bureau with two grains of salt: from an ideological perspective the [...]
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released a draft tax reform plan that would make significant changes to tax-advantaged savings plans, including employer-sponsored retirement plans, Traditional and Roth IRAs, and Coverdell education [...]
March 17th is one of my favorite days of the year. St. Patrick's Day! Though it honors the patron saint of Ireland, today St. Patrick's Day (SPD) is celebrated by many people throughout the world – [...]
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released a draft tax reform plan that would make significant changes to tax-advantaged savings plans, including employer-sponsored retirement plans, Traditional and Roth IRAs, and Coverdell education [...]
It is 9:00 am on Wednesday morning and I am sitting in a loan committee meeting with one of our clients. On the docket today is a 2 million dollar commercial and industrial (C&[...]
By: Bo McDonald Several years ago on a hot July afternoon I was browsing the many art galleries that line Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Several artists and gallery managers exchanged [...]
by. Dan Berger Last year, during one of NAFCU’s monthly all-staff meetings, senior management asked staff for ideas to help market our Annual Conference and Solutions Expo, which is this July in Las Vegas. [...]
by. Anthony Demangone Everyone appears to be busy. And I mean everyone. Even Kate and Briggs say that their workload has doubled in the past two years. In a recent survey, many of you pointed [...]
by. Tracey Parsons Bank CEO: “Why is there a puppy on our Facebook page?” Social Media Community Manager: “Because puppies get great engagement.” Bank leadership: “Huh???” While this exchanges sounds farcical, it’s not that [...]
Have you heard that saying before? It comes from the great Yogi Berra. He explained that this quote originated when he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs in the Yankees’ [...]
by. Henry Meier New York has a schizophrenic relationship with wealth. On one hand it prides itself on having a progressive pro-labor tradition in which it leads the way in protecting the average Joe against [...]
by. Mike Lawson Fresh off the plane from the recent GAC show in D.C., it seems credit unions are hitting on all cylinders. And that's definitely a good thing, as we have happily [...]
One of the best books out there on business is “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. It had been several years since I read it last, but I recently picked it up again for a [...]
“’Cause the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house.” – [...]
Dear Mr. Filene: You would've been proud of them, sir. 46 fresh faces from nearly every corner of the country, brought together by their love of the credit unions you helped carve out of the [...]
