Twas the Night Before the Austerity Crisis (a poem)
by Hon. Daniel A. Mica, The DMA Group Twas the eve of the holidays and through the Senate and House, The whole Congress was stirring to the dismay of each spouse. Obama and Boehner were [...]
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Consumers Don’t Care About Cooperative Values (Impact Values)! I Just Don’t Buy It!
by Roger Conant, CUTweetTrack What do I base that on? Well, it’s certainly not based on the slew of credit union efforts aimed at focusing on their cooperative DNA in strategic terms (both internally [...]
Leaders: We’ve Got To Win Them
by Matt Monge Let’s assume for a minute that you’ve been putting some of the foundational, building-block things in place to foster and support healthy culture (things like clarifying the values, making sure [...]
Email Security – Viruses, Spam, Phishing
New computer viruses, spam techniques, phishing attaches, and spyware come out each day. These malicious tools can spread easily through your IT environment. These threats are easily delivered through email by attachments or links to [...]
21 Ways To Make A Big Financial Change
We always intend to make financial changes in life, but we don't often realize there are little things we can do to make a bigger change. Wise Bread has 21 ways to turn your finances [...]
Dodd-Frank: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
by Henry Meier NCUA used its last meeting of the year to finalize regulations mandated by the Dodd- Frank Act requiring federal regulators to eliminate any requirement “of reliance on credit rating agencies.” In other [...]
Capital and Capitol Conundrums
BY SARAH SNELL COOKE Sometimes things you didn’t think would affect you sneak up on you by surprise, whether out of nowhere or through ignorance or you’re merely preoccupied with other things. Dodd-Frank [...]
Travel Expenses for NCUA Board Members
by Keith Leggett Bravo to Credit Union Journal for examining the travel-related expenses of the NCUA Board members. According to data obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request, Credit Union Journal found that in [...]
Big Data and Credit Unions
By Jay Kassing, MARQUIS “There were 5 exabytes of information created by the entire world between the dawn of civilization and 2003. Now that same amount is created every two days.” - Eric Schmidt, Executive [...]
Why George Bailey Quit: A sequel to “It’s a wonderful Life”
To: George Potter V. Chairman, Board of Directors of the Bailey credit union From: George Bailey IV Reason: I Quit I am writing this letter, with a little encouragement from my friend Jack Daniels, to [...]
Getting to the Bottom of VISA’s V.me with TMG’s Brandon Kuehl
The payments space keeps inching closer and closer to a genuine, bonafide digital wallet and VISA just came out with the next inch that is getting us in the neighborhood. It's called V.me. [...]
Rescue Refinance: Double Bottom Line Results for Wisconsin’s CoVantage Credit Union
by Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of CDCU CoVantage Credit Union recently received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Community Development Financial Institutions Fund to extend its Rescue Refinance program, the only credit [...]
If You Read Anything Today… Read This
by Tom Glatt Jr On December 6 Bloomberg Businessweek published an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. If you read anything today, read this interview. Why? I’ll tell you why. The way this man [...]
Five Easy Steps to Avoid Being the Nightmare Boss
by Mark Arnold Those that have seen the cult hit movie Office Space will readily recall the character of Bill Lumbergh, a mid-level manager at the fictional company Initech. Famous for patrolling the cubicle farm [...]
Which Credit Unions Are Best Suited To Leverage The Cloud?
by Kirk Drake If you are a credit union that is confused about whether cloud can benefit you and your company this post is for you. We see a lot of credit unions transitioning functionality [...]