By Stacy Johnson The frenzy of fees in everything from travel to banking is the financial equivalent of a cold slap in the face. Here are 10 examples, and some advice on fighting back. It’[...]
by Nicole Reyes As we gear up for the holiday shopping season, I wanted to bring up the topic from a different perspective – the perspective of the financial institution (FI). I have blogged before about [...]
by ANDY JANNING That's what we say when we first learn about an inexplicable tragedy in another's otherwise picturesque life. We struggle to pull sense from the senseless while grudgingly admitting that the full truth [...]
by Henry Meier There are two villains behind the financial crisis: one is banking institutions, which abdicated their responsibility to underwrite loans and then ran to Congress to advocate for a $1 trillion bailout in [...]
by Kirk Drake If you don’t think you can ever get over the idea of not owning your infrastructure or trusting a partner to provide your data center as a service than don’t [...]
By John Mathes, Weber Marketing Group Before focusing my attention on retail financial services branding, I spent the majority of my marketing career working with and for traditional retailers. Retail marketing and advertising is not [...]
by Brian Nutt, Codigo Today’s branch environment is quickly moving to a more interactive, immersive space designed to invite member communication with not only Credit Union employees but also the Credit Union brand. This [...]
by Fred Brown, Northeast Family Federal Credit Union SIX WEEKS! How much vacation do you get? I get enough to keep me (relatively) sane, yet not so much that I am deliriously happy. I guess [...]
by Bo McDonald Remember that fuzzy pink bunny pounding the drum in those TV commercials in the 80s and 90s? It outlasted and passed by all kinds of other devices. The bunny represented the longevity [...]
Glatt Consulting founder Tom Glatt, Jr delivered a live video stream release of Glatt Consulting’s third quarter 2012 Credit Union Industry HealthScore. Tom discussed the surprising trends in the data that buck conventional [...]
Each year about this time we start to gear up for an onslaught of annual report projects. The prep starts now and by mid February when client financial statements are complete, we are fully engaged. [...]
by Jeff Falk With the amusement park-ride that is our economy, resources like First Data’s monthly SpendTrend Analysis become particularly interesting to read. The curves, dips and free falls of consumer sentiment make predicting [...]
by Ron Shevlin Credit card marketers are well versed in the concept of the “top of wallet” card. The idea is simple: With so many Americans walking around with multiple credit (and now debit and [...]
By Robert Siciliano Imagine your body being targeted by 75 million viruses. That is exactly what’s happening to your digital devices and mobile devices are being targeted like never before. Mobile smartphone and tablets [...]
by Henry Meier It takes a big blogger to admit when he’s wrong and it appears that this blogger may have been wrong when he predicted that the $26 billion robo signing settlement with [...]
