What Are Your Credit Union’s Priorities?
by Sean McDonald, Your Full Potential, LLC It’s inevitable – at some point in the next few weeks your credit union’s management team will be deciding what the top priorities will be in 2013. [...]
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Traveler’s Report: Good And Praiseworthy Credit Unions Abound Coast-To-Coast
by Scott Butterfield, Your Credit Union Partner The 2012 strategic planning season has come to an end, and it has been by far the most interesting yet. Since late summer, I have spent quality time [...]
Competitive Advantage at Risk in Collaboration
by Lisa Renner I was speaking at a conference this week and posed the following question to a group of CEOs and directors: “What keeps us from collaborating; what causes us to hesitate?” Immediately, a [...]
IRS Breakthrough: January 2013
by Chuck Salvia, Computer Information Development (CID) Currently, a hard-copy wet signature is required by the IRS to process a 4506T Income Tax Return Verification to check an applicant’s income history. Beginning January 7, [...]
Stop Honking and Cook Bankers’ Christmas Goose
BY SARAH SNELL COOKE Third-quarter figures for federally insured credit unions this week were welcome news and the result of a lot of hard work by credit union professionals around the country. Certainly not a [...]
The Case for Social Media: Why You Can’t Afford to Ignore It Anymore
by Sundeep Kapur “I don’t have time to blog!” (SVP of Marketing at a mid-sized credit union) When I heard this from my friend “MC” I quickly thought about three recent events, and what [...]
Time to Raise the MBL Cap for Credit Unions?
By Rohit Arora Fred Becker, President and CEO of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU), is calling upon Senate leaders to pass a bill to raise the credit union member business lending cap ([...]
More Credit Union Employees Stayed Put in 2011
by CUNA eScan Employee turnover at credit unions is down, according to CUNA's 2012-2013 Turnover & Staffing Survey. Overall, the credit union turnover rate was 10% in 2011, down from 12% in 2010 and similar [...]
Think Outside The Moat
Think outside the box. It’s an overused cliché. Instead of thinking outside the box, credit unions and banks need to think outside the moat. A recent article in the Credit Union Journal featured a [...]
You Have A Right To See Specialty Consumer Reports Too
BY DAN RUTHERFORD You have the right to know what nationwide specialty consumer reporting companies are saying about you. And you’re entitled to one free report each year, just like with the traditional nationwide [...]
View From the Field: Reg E Errors
BY RYAN CHARLTON As the Director of Regulatory Compliance here at PolicyWorks, my primary function is to lead the delivery of our compliance review services. I enjoy getting out of the office and working onsite [...]
A-h-h, The Strategic Plan
by Jim Blaine Certain lots of credit union folks, about now, are dead in the midst of finalizing their strategic planning document for 2013. Many credit union leaders still believe that no one will know [...]
Get Personal And Dodge The Delete Button
Ron Daly, DigitalMailer, Inc. We live in hectic times. To help us juggle work, family and household duties, we search for convenience to simplify our lives. So, thank goodness for technology! What would we do [...]
Trends From 2012 That Will Affect 2013
by Steve Comer, Hyland Software As the year draws to a close, it’s the perfect time to take a look at the most important trends we saw in 2012 that will still affect credit [...]
CU Journal 2012 Best Practices Winners with Frank Diekmann
Each year about this time we invite Credit Union Journal Publisher Frank Diekmann on the show to deliver the good news about the latest batch of his magazine's Best Practice Award winners. As usual, [...]