2022: The year of the soft start
The last Friday before his winter break, I was driving my son to school, peppering him with questions and conversation starters meant to add energy and inspiration to his day and being met with the [...]
News Archives
How to create transparent career paths for employees
Credit union professionals looking to improve banking services and deepen their relationships with business partners should consider creating transparent career paths for their employees. Career pathing presents a structured development program within any financial institution. [...]
Continuously enhancing portfolio visibility with analytics
Managing a portfolio of loan participations is no different than managing your own loan book: attention must be paid to ever-changing credit risk, interest-rate risk, and one’s liquidity profile, among other things. Yet, loan [...]
CUNA backs FHFA mission to support affordable housing
CUNA looks forward to working with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director on credit union priorities and encourages FHFA to use CUNA as a resource. FHFA Acting Director Sandra Thompson was nominated to become [...]
NAFCU voices concerns regarding Treasury’s CDFI Fund application backlog
NAFCU Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Ann Kossachev wrote to the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) Wednesday requesting enhanced transparency and communication on pending applications for credit unions seeking CDFI certification. “[...]
CFO Focus: Not the dreaded ‘D’ word
“I am really concerned about these long assets!” –At least one member on your board The year was 1996, and I was in an asset/liability committee meeting early in my career. The topic of [...]
Technology is only one piece of true digital transformation in banking
Digital transformation is one of those buzzwords tossed around pretty freely these days. But when you go beyond the hype, what does digital transformation truly mean for banks and credit unions? It includes — but is [...]
NAFCU: Treasury Department is not ‘forthright’ about CDFI backlog
The Community Development Financial Institutions program has a serious backlog of applications, and the Treasury Department is failing to be forthright about it with credit unions waiting for their applications to be reviewed, Ann C. [...]
Core conversions need marketing love, too
Technology moves fast, and credit unions need to move faster. Or at least keep up. If changing or upgrading your core processor is on the table, here’s why Marketing needs to be sitting at [...]
4 ways to maximize your digital banking services, and why it matters
While digital banking services may have made its mark in the last few years, it strikes many as no surprise that membership growth in credit unions has been at its slowest since 2014. Why? Well, [...]
Want to drive revenue growth and boost your credit union’s relevance?
Attend the credit union growth event of the year March 21-23 in Greenville, SC at NAFCU’s Strategic Growth Conference to discover innovative solutions and strategies to drive growth and stay ahead of your competition. [...]
AI is changing the way people do banking: Is your CU making the right investment?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only the norm, but the expectation for just about every aspect of life, including banking. AI is an intelligent and virtual resource that deploys data to replace and improve business [...]
Create more impact: Five focused New Year’s resolutions
Our family adopted a pug named Everest just over a year ago. Amidst her second holiday celebration with us, she grew very interested in our Christmas tree. As December 25 neared, our evenings seemed to [...]
Do something you suck at
With a new year, I like most people, set some goals. I am neither a resolution person, nor a big sweeping change-the-world on January 1 type of person. No for me, I am pretty simplistic [...]
Amy Cuddy will outline steps to harness ‘power of presence’ at CUNA GAC
Social psychologist, NYT-bestselling author and award-winning Harvard lecturer Amy Cuddy will outline simple techniques to help attendees harness the power of presence and perform at peak levels under stress during the 2022 CUNA Governmental Affairs [...]