By. Gina Ragusa Rock bottom rates and a slowly recovering economy have positioned short sale and foreclosure properties in an extremely attractive light. Lenders report that bargain properties have been snapped up so quickly within [...]
By Michael E. Fryzel, NCUA Board Member The NCUA Report is published by the National Credit Union Administration, 775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3428 There is a wealth of good ideas, innovative thinking and unique [...]
By. Sean McDonald Yes, it’s that time of year again – spring training baseball! This past weekend, the first of the “Cactus” or “Grapefruit” League pre-season games were played. (Teams spend the spring in either [...]
By Michael Neill, CSE Welcome to Missional Monday No. 3. (See the past installments here and here.) Today I want to focus on the second action of a missional leader, “Transform behaviors in alignment with [...]
By Matt Monge Develop young leaders. Develop your leadership pipeline. Invest in the next generation of leaders. Wind up the whippersnappers. OK. So I made that last one up, but the first three are phrases [...]
By. Jason O'Brien, SWBC Recently, the attention placed on institutions' mobile and online banking capabilities has grown. As consumers move their banking relationships, or consider moving, they will be equating your self-service options to those [...]
By Michael Downs, Vice President of Marketing, Momentum In a world where access to products and services is just a keystroke or swipe of the iPad away, there is undoubtedly a fundamental shift in how [...]
by Pierluigi Stella, Chief Technology Officer of Network Box USA During his recent State of the Union address, the President made reference to an executive order on Cyber Security, which he signed on 2/12/[...]
By Bo McDonald I preface this post by saying I am not the world’s great boss. I don’t come close to earning that title. I have high expectations, little patience and a pretty [...]
By Valencia Higuera Are you fed up with your current bank? Do you need an auto loan or new bank account, but you don’t know where to go? Unless you live in a one-horse [...]
By Jim Bruene We now have digital wallets, cloud wallets and mobile wallets. There's the Google Wallet, PayPal wallet, ISIS, Serve, MCX, V.me, PayPass, Lemon, Pageonce, Wallaby, Passbook, LevelUp (see screenshot below) and 280 [...]
By Keith Leggett NCUA reported that the number of problem credit unions fell during the fourth quarter and for all of 2012. A problem credit union is defined as a credit union with a CAMEL [...]
By. Georgann Smith Creating and delivering content that engages a target audience is a goal of any marketing department. Whether they serve a large multi-national corporation or a financial institution’s (FI) local branch, the [...]
By Matt Monge It’s a good goal. An admirable one, even. One of the top comments that seems to come up, both in casual conversation as well as in coaching conversations with young professionals, [...]
BY DEBBIE DRAGON If money is tight or you’re looking to accelerate your debt repayment efforts, a temporary job or quick side gig might be the answer to your financial struggles. Not all of [...]
