There are signs the American economy is improving. But, there are very few signs that small to midsize credit unions and small community banks are seeing any improvements in their fortunes as the result of [...]
A fresh, creative integrated marketing campaign from Georgia United uses a sassy grandmother as an unlikely promotional spokeswoman. Georgia United Credit Union ($975 million in assets, 124,000 members) in Atlanta wanted to generate buzz [...]
by Tim McAlpine The CU Water Cooler Symposium 2013 is fast approaching. In fact, it's three months away from today. The two biggest changes we made last year were moving the venue from Fishers, Indiana [...]
There’s a documentary on the festival circuit right now (it played in a few theaters earlier this year) and, as Hollywood hype would have it, it’s generating buzz. Called Downloaded, it documents the [...]
by Steve Rick The end is near—at least for the Federal Reserve Board’s asset purchase program known as quantitative easing. The Fed has used this tool to purchase $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities [...]
by Tim Mislansky Every year the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University publishes a study on The State of the Nation’s Housing. A friend of mine once encouraged me to read it [...]
BY KAIA ZAWADI When shopping for a new or used car you need to decide on how you’re going to pay for it. If paying for the car with cash isn’t enough, consumers [...]
BY HOLLY PETRAEUSAfter a lifetime of living and working with servicemembers, I know that the young men and women who volunteer to serve this nation are a resourceful group. Self-reliance, tenacity and a single-minded focus [...]
Love and marriage may—according to Frank Sinatra’s hit song—go together like a horse and carriage, but the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California [...]
Three disruptive payments trends are keeping credit union leaders up at night, and for good reason. Each of these shifts in the payments landscape threatens to change everything they know about maintaining a sustainable payments [...]
In response to a challenging market environment, many credit unions have turned their focus to pursuing initiatives that will provide a continual stream of organizational benefits resulting from improved operational excellence, innovation, and a member-centric [...]
BY SIMON ZHEN Banks continue to raise the fee that is charged when customers spend more than they have in their accounts. Since the end of 2012, the average fee for a $50 overdraft has [...]
by Ken Tumin I was happy to see DepositAccounts.com mentioned on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer today! For those who are first time visitors, welcome to DepositAccounts.com!The ABC news piece mentioned [...]
What drives us to make things better? Why do we push harder to improve a process, a customer journey, to make continuous tweaks to our application interface…what motivates us to think differently and drive [...]
by Anthony Demangone During last week's conference, I gave a number of talks. And even though I've been speaking publicly for more than 10 years, you always learn something new. Each and every time you [...]
