by Joe Swatek Some days ago, I showed you examples of two envelope promotions that used faux checks in the envelope windows. There are a few marketing techniques on the envelopes themselves that I want [...]
About a year ago, in response to a heavy succession of major floods that took their toll on the National Flood Insurance Program, Congress passed the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, which not [...]
One of the many trending stories that continues to make headlines centers on Paula Deen. If you follow the news, there’s no way you escaped hearing about all that is befalling this Southern culinary [...]
by Bo McDonald Remember that scene from the movie Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks when his buddy Bubba (Mykelti Williamson) recited all the ways to serve shrimp? It makes me think about the new rage [...]
Sixteen minutes isn't very long. It's enough time to take a shower before work. It's enough time to check your newsfeed before you go to sleep at night. If you were in Moore, Oklahoma on [...]
by DeAndre Upshaw In a hilarious and thought-provoking segment, "The Daily Show" traveled to Canada to discover how the differences between American and Canadian banks stack up. In one of the most revealing moments, the [...]
by Nicole Reyes As the U.S. continues its migration to EMV cards, this shift leaves the fraudsters needing to evolve away from counterfeiting and moving towards other, more “old school” methods such as account-takeovers [...]
by. Jeff Fisher From a consumer perspective, I wholeheartedly believe mobile is a necessary service channel. I am all about mobile, but we are not hearing a pressing need from the wholesale banking community to [...]
Many of the compliance solutions providers that are on the market today offer a series of self-help tools to compliance officers and internal auditors. These self-help tools may include checklists, sample policies, and excel spreadsheet [...]
by. Henry Meier The CFPB’s Qualified Mortgage regulation reminds me of those ads where an adult asks a group of kids a question like “What type of mortgage is better? A Qualified Mortgage with [...]
by. Keith Leggett The Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a final rule increasing small business size standards for several industries, including commercial banks, savings institutions, and credit unions. The rule increases the size standard from $[...]
by. Heather Horrocks and Mark Alguard With a number of underperforming branches being closed at an unprecedented rate by big banks, one wonders if the same approach is applicable to credit unions. According to Celent, [...]
These days, branding is everything. The average American citizen lives amidst a constant barrage of brand advertising and exposure as United States companies collectively spend more than $300 billion on marketing each year, and that [...]
For the past 3 weeks many NBA fans have been glued to our televisions watching what happened to be one of the best Finals of the century. With so many twists and turns, it became [...]
CUNA's 2013 America's Credit Union Conference is next week. To get a quick preview, we invited CUNA's President/CEO Bill Cheney on the program for an inside look on the speakers, sessions, and events [...]
