60% of CUSO’s are Insurance based and almost all of them have the same thing in common: They are barely scratching the surface of their potential! President of Insurance Strategies with Daggett Enterprises, Melanie [...]
Who could’ve predicted the past few years and what they would mean to all of us financially? According to a recent Consumer Affairs study, 50% of Americans are struggling to pay their bills on [...]
Your members are primarily banking through digital channels. In fact, a survey by Chase at the end of 2021 showed an increase of more than 10% adoption over the previous year when stay-at-home mandates were [...]
Your credit union website needs a refresh. Credit union leaders need to be aware of the results of one recent study that reported two important data points: 46% of consumers are now using their smartphone [...]
“We need more social media followers.” I’ve heard countless credit union leaders say this during meetings. But it’s one thing to know you need followers and another thing entirely to gain those followers. [...]
This summer, I am the Corporate Communications Intern at Co-op Solutions (www.coop.org). I always hoped to start my communications career by gaining experience on a positive team that provides many opportunities. During the [...]
Employees have been experiencing a very unbalanced work and home life. The current pandemic, economic crisis, and social injustice is not just occurring in the workplace, it is happening at home too. The workplace and [...]
Commonly, leaders spend a great deal of time, effort, and money trying to motivate their employees and create an optimally productive environment. After all, employee motivation is a fundamental aspect of being a leader. In [...]
CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle wrote to all 535 members of Congress Wednesday in strong opposition of the credit card bill from Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill. CUNA and Leagues issued an [...]
The latest episode of NAFCU’s Credit Union Policy Podcast (CUPP), which launched in early July, features a discussion between NCUA Vice Chairman Kyle Hauptman and NAFCU Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Ann Petros exploring [...]
There’s been talk of recession brewing for months now. The term is coming up on the news, over dinner, and around the proverbial office water cooler. As more and more snippets of fiscal jargon [...]
A June 2022 survey reports that 25 percent of students and their parents are already on the hunt for books, backpacks and other items.1 The average amount each household plans to spend on these [...]
A few federal holidays here and there. Team member vacations need to be covered in the branch. Your own vacation if you’re lucky. Not to mention you’re stuck in that weird limbo between [...]
The “Great Resignation” is one of the pandemic’s unforeseen outcomes. Demand for workers remains high, despite the best attempts of many employers to attract and retain talent. Financial institutions are not immune and are [...]
On July 27, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the filing of a complaint and consent order against Trident Mortgage Company LP (Trident) in the U.S. [...]
