Remaining relevant in the financial services industry is more challenging than it’s ever been. Competition from new industry entrants, changes from tech giants, the proliferation of online banking and pandemic-related limitations on physical branches [...]
Credit union supporters saw victories in Tuesday’s primaries in Ohio and Indiana, as all 19 credit union supporters in the two states won Tuesday. Candidates were supported by the Ohio Credit Union League, Indiana [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., will meet today to discuss interchange fees at a hearing slated for 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. Ahead of the hearing, NAFCU President and [...]
When I joined my first credit union almost 30 years ago, the member experience looked a lot different than it does today. Member service was limited to business hours—with the exception of Thursdays, when [...]
Thinking differently is more than just coming up with ideas, says Humane Product Architect Ken Kocienda. It takes many steps for ideas to be fully realized. Kocienda, a former product engineer at Apple, saw how [...]
Since the end of 2020, news media reports have alleged racial bias in home appraisals, turning a spotlight on the appraisal process in the housing finance system. An analysis of 1.8 million appraisals in [...]
The National Credit Union Foundation has today opened nominations for the 2023 Herb Wegner Memorial Awards. The awards have celebrated the innovators and changemakers of the credit union movement for over thirty years and are [...]
In the fall of 2021, CUES worked with TalentTelligent, a research-based talent management tool provider, to conduct research to determine the most critical credit union leader behaviors needed to drive effectiveness and relevancy for the [...]
Innovation. It’s a make-it-or-break-it requirement for ANY company, and financial institutions are no exception. So, we were thrilled to sit down with an expert on this very subject, to see how FIs can best [...]
Everyone’s life is different and we all learn life skills in a different order and at different ages. No matter where you’re at, here are four money skills you should have by now... [...]
No. You won’t have multiple camel ratings, but there will be an S at the end of the NCUA’s new CAMELS rating system, which went into effect on April 1, 2022. CAMELS is [...]
To best serve their members, credit unions must offer a broad range of well-priced services, grow along with their communities, and remain financially sustainable. For many institutions, accomplishing all these goals can seem a daunting [...]
The 2022 CDFI CORE funding round just closed. So, anything related to CDFI is top of mind for our team right now. Like anyone involved in the CDFI space, this was a record-breaking year. More [...]
CUNA strongly objects to legislation, regulation and other government intervention to restrict the ability of credit unions to offer overdraft protection plans that help members resolve short-term financial difficulties, CUNA wrote to a Senate Banking, [...]
NAFCU Senior Counsel for Research and Policy Andrew Morris wrote to the NCUA to offer general support for its proposed rulemaking related to Office of National Examinations and Supervision (ONES) asset threshold determination. The proposal, [...]
