Here’s a data point worth celebrating -- last year, credit unions picked up 5 million memberships according to a new February 2022 Credit Union Trends report based on data from December, according to CUNA [...]
Anyone who has ever set foot in the credit union ecosystem knows that women in this industry are remarkable. So many women rock stars in the space are quite literally changing the world – one member [...]
With the help of my family and friends far and wide… I KICKED CANCER’S ASS! My surgery was successful, and I all my testing thus far has come back Cancer free. After 5 years [...]
A credit union’s first responsibility is taking care of its members, which means you must create a well-rounded experience for them. Office design plays a more important role than you might think in fostering [...]
Limiting access to arbitration could deprive consumers of an efficient means to resolve legal disputes, CUNA wrote to House leadership Wednesday. The House is considering CUNA-opposed legislation to effectively ban arbitration provisions in private contracts. [...]
Today, NAFCU’s 2022 board election cycle opens with several director positions available. NAFCU's regional board positions reflect the NCUA's restructuring of its regional offices. An email to NAFCU members today will include information on [...]
Virtually every leader dreads giving (and receiving) performance reviews. There are always too many to complete, they take too long, and assuming there is software involved, the software is always too clunky or over-simplified. Worst [...]
A pair of longtime credit union leaders are spending the week in Europe supporting Ukrainian refugees and credit unions. Bruce Foulke, president/CEO of $3.6 billion asset American Heritage Credit Union in Philadelphia, traveled [...]
Member communication can sometimes feel like another thing on your to-do list, especially if you’re also juggling multiple big-ticket projects. But in reality, it’s one of the the most important things you can [...]
Let’s be honest—the last couple of years have been hard on everyone. We’ve all had our lives disrupted in big and small ways thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as 2020 has [...]
Approximately two years after the merger between BB&T and SunTrust that formed Truist Financial became final, the physical face of the big regional bank is now uniform. All 2,500 of its retail [...]
In October of 2021, the NCUA approved a final rule adding a new component to the CAMEL Rating System: ‘S’ for Sensitivity to Market Risk. In March of 2022, NCUA issued Letter to Credit Unions [...]
Gen Z, having recently surpassed millennials, is now the largest generation in the world — and the least financially literate. But that’s not for lack of interest. Gen Z craves financial education, but they need [...]
I finally did it. I made it to CUNA’s GAC. And everything you all told me was true: it’s inspiring, empowering and, let’s be honest, exhausting. But there’s an energy that [...]
Have we lost our way? Have we forgotten who Net Worth belongs to? Have we forgotten about the uniqueness of the cooperative model? There is much discussion in the credit union industry about the very [...]
