What are the Technology Challenges for New CUSOs?
by Kirk Drake If you are a small CUSO, credit union service organization, you may be looking for alternatives to using the sponsor credit union for your technology. If so, this post is for you. [...]
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Secondary Capital: Fueling Credit Union Growth to Achieve Their True Potential
by Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of CDCU 2012 marked a turning point for credit unions. CUNA's mid-year report shows that asset growth was 6.9%, compared to the 4.2% of the prior year. Fueled [...]
Focusing on the Right Resolutions
by Sharon Simpson, Ongoing Operations As we all return to work for the first full week of the New Year, many of us will be greeted with a pile of to do items. Meeting schedules [...]
6 Ways to Really Screw Up Recognition (Guest Post)
by Darcy Jacobsen A short while back, Matt wrote a terrific blog post over at Globoforce on how to make your company values sticky. As the saying goes, “no good deed goes unpunished.” So we’[...]
Top Three Trends for 2013
Three Top Trends for 2013 Now that we see 2012 in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to reset the GPS to identify and map the technical and communication trends that will shape what we [...]
Savvy Resolutions You Should Make This Year
by Emily Co The best way to stick to New Year's resolutions (or any type of resolution, for that matter) is to keep it simple. You may wonder how you can streamline such a complex [...]
Four Tips to Achieve Your 2013 Strategic Goals
by Mark Arnold It’s hard to believe, but the calendar just flipped another year from 2012 to 2013. Financial institutions across the country have spent immeasurable hours and dollars preparing strategic plans for the [...]
Credit Union Legal Hurdles for 2013
BY E. ANDREW KEENEY Credit Union Times recently asked the attorneys on the Credit Union Team at Kaufman & Canoles for their predictions for the top 10 major legal challenges for credit unions in 2013. [...]
Earnings per Member: An Alternative Benchmark to Measure Financial Performance
by Gee Gee Kaufman Tired of ROAA as the principle yardstick to measure financial performance? I offer another benchmark that assesses the overall execution of the business model and incorporates asset growth, membership growth and [...]
The Less-Cash Society
by Ron Shevlin Talk about the death of cash goes back thousands of years. Of course, to many Gen Yers, the world began in 1978, so what ever happened before that is irrelevant. Recently, talk [...]
What Does a Business Continuity Program Look Like?
by Kirk Drake If you believe that business continuity planning is living & breathing processes than this blog is for you. If you believe it is something that you do because the regulators make you [...]
2 Lessons from Life of Pi: Be Heard and Remembered
by Mike Lawson My lovely wife and I just saw the movie Life of Pi and were amazed with the special effects the movie presented – as well as the plot. Ok, ok, yes the movie [...]
News Flash: Sales Isn’t About Selling More, It’s About Caring More
by Dale Turner, The Cooperative Trust Have you ever been asked by a potential peer or industry peer "what separates you from the rest of the financial institutions in your market?" A common response: "We [...]
“We Improve Lives”
We talked about credit union messaging working at two levels: the first level of messaging to attract non-members and the second level to gain the loyalty of the members. We do not often find that [...]
Adjusting to the Realities of a New Year
BY SARAH SNELL COOKE Forget that jobless claims were revised upward, even higher than initial projections. The New Year is a time for optimism. As California CU League Economist Dwight Johnston wrote in his commentary [...]