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Your Real Competition

Your Real Competition

By. Mark Arnold Every bank or credit union thinks they know their competition: other financial institutions. When making a list of competitors, the usual suspects arise, such as large national banks, other local banks/credit [...]

Kate and Briggs: There’s no such thing as a free lunch…

Written by Anthony Demangone One of these days, I need to write down some life lessons for Kate and Briggs. When they leave for college (both on scholarship, mind you), I'll hand them an envelope.  [...]

13 Thoughts for Discouraged Leaders

13 Thoughts for Discouraged Leaders

By Matt Monge It ain’t all rainbows and unicorns. After the YouTube clip ends, after the conference is over, after the teambuilding session–there’s this other thing that happens. Real life leadership. And [...]

The Fallacy of Branding

by Steve Topper Thanks Joe for getting me riled up about branding.  Your Monday blog did the trick.  I’ve read it several times and watched both of Union Bank’s new touchy/feely branding [...]

Credit Union DDOS: Solution

By Kirk Drake Protector – Credit Union DDOS Solution In the past few weeks you may have read our series on Credit Union DDOS.  We covered: Credit Union DDOS: Part 1 – Non-Technical Explanation Credit Union DDOS: [...]

“Credit Union,” A National Bland?

By Tim McAlpine Have you ever asked a young person outside of the credit union movement bubble what a credit union is? If you have, then you know that this question will be answered in [...]

Filson Calls for Cooperative NCUA

Filson encourages credit unions and their members to sign WhiteHouse.gov petition. by Jimmy Marks On Monday morning, just as the CUNA Government Affairs Conference (GAC) was getting underway, Chip Filson, Chairman of Callahan & [...]

Onsite: Wednesday at GAC

Onsite: Wednesday at GAC

Today is the day the credit union world Hikes the Hill. Representatives from all 50 states will be hearing the collective voice of the credit union community today. We will be posting and tweeting throughout [...]