by. Rob Walker, Managing Director, LPS Applied Analytics Credit unions continue to accelerate their efforts to provide both first and second mortgages to their valued customers. This is evident with nearly 71% of credit unions [...]
By Bo McDonald One day last year I was having lunch with the management team of a credit union at our routine lunch “hangout.” The food is mediocre. Our normal server is abrupt and rude. [...]
By Lee Silber The opening keynote of the 2013 CUNA Consumer & Residential Mortgage Lending School will be delivered by best-selling author and popular solutions presenter, Lee Silber. His presentation, titled Credit Union Rock Stars: [...]
By Kirk Drake As we continue our Series on Credit Union Clouds – this week we will move into more of the nuts and bolts. For those of you that are interested in what infrastructure is [...]
BY SIMON ZHEN Despite the valiant push by financial innovators to boost adoption of mobile payments, these new ways to pay for something remain a mystery to consumers. The effort is further impeded, surprisingly, by [...]
by. Brian Scott Several hot markets continue to make headlines, keeping them top-of-mind for financial institution marketers looking for innovative growth strategies. There is one market, however, that has a tendency to be overlooked – the [...]
by. Matt Monge What’s your position on unicorns? That Socrates guy was onto something with that crazy method of his, though what you’ll see in this post isn’t nearly as eloquent. Getting [...]
by Ken Tumin Internet banks aren’t the only ones that are moving to an all-online application process. I’ve become members at a few credit unions that didn’t require any mail. I was [...]
By. Ronaldo Hardy, Shell Geismar Federal Credit Union Now I know what you’re thinking right now. What in the world is Ronaldo talking about? Well, it’s quite simple. Lately, I have been reflecting [...]
By. Fred Brown, Northeast Family Federal Credit Union “OK, twenty, forty, sixty, eighty and one hundred. Thanks and have a good day." Does that sound like your tellers? If so, it shouldn’t. Selling! Does [...]
By. Stuart R. Levine, Stuart Levine & Associates LLC On November 27th, I was fortunate enough to hear a presentation by David Walker, Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI). In this capacity, [...]
By Michelle Harbinak-Shapiro Core banking providers have been taking over the headlines lately. It reminds me of how the geniuses at Cornerstone Advisors effectively used pop culture to urge financial institutions to overhaul their cores [...]
by. Mark Arnold “The way you break through to the mainstream is to target a niche instead of a large market.” Sharp financial executives ask a lot of questions. “What is our vision?” “What makes [...]
by. Scott Butterfield The pursuit of new members and borrowers is a never-ending process, and the consistent attraction of new members and loans are essential to a credit union’s survival. There are many growth [...]
by. Jeff Falk Have you heard? Your customers can now withdraw cash from their Walmart prepaid card at any ATM, take out loans for home renovations from the Home Depot, apply for mortgages from Costco [...]
