Many credit unions today are stretching to expand their community development and outreach programs. Credit unions are pursuing community development financial institution certification because of their desire to promote greater community outcomes and, of course, [...]
Over the past several months, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and federal regulators have hit two national banks with complaints alleging fair lending violations. The banks are alleged to have engaged in redlining practices with [...]
Lots of credit unions offer emergency loans, but not many include power outages among the reasons a member might need quick, interest-free help. That’s the case at Community First Credit Union ($715.7, Santa [...]
The municipal bond market is unlike any other fixed-income market in numerous ways. It’s a $4 trillion market with millions of individual bonds and credits that trade on an over-the-counter market, which means there [...]
Thank you for tuning in to episode 20 of The CUInsight Network, with your host, Lauren Culp, Publisher & CEO of CUInsight.com. In The CUInsight Network, we take a deeper dive with the thought [...]
Your credit union likely touts a robust lineup of products and services, but getting them into the hands of your members requires more than leads from your website. To be successful, you must engage your [...]
Credit unions derive income from revenues generated by two primary sources: interest income and fee income. Interest income is revenue earned by lending money, and fee revenue is earned from account-based charges. Typically, interest income [...]
The ALM First Financial Forum brings the brightest leaders in the industry together with exceptionally unique networking opportunities. This year’s Forum was held at the Silverado Resort in Napa Valley, a quaint but bold [...]
Derik Sutton: All right, well let's get going okay everybody welcome to today's webinar. Derik Sutton: we're just going to look at the data, so I know, last time we talked we do a lot [...]
Forty-four credit union professionals earned designations signifying their expertise by successfully completing CUNA Marketing & Business Development Certification School, endorsed by CUNA Marketing & Business Development Council, which took place virtually in October. “Our recent [...]
President Joe Biden and Congressional leaders on Thursday outlined a new reconciliation package framework and released draft bill text that backs away the NAFCU-opposed provision requiring financial institutions to report all account inflow and outflow [...]
Keeping the payments system running has always been so critical that elaborate arrangements of hardened perimeters, file back-ups, processing redundancies, frequent testing and many more such steps have been used to keep outages within acceptable [...]
What is your organization doing to protect business information against the potential threat vendors present? Setting your organization up to take a tailored approach to vendor risk management and mitigation can make your processes more [...]
If your credit union issues credit cards, you may be familiar with Regulation Z, section 1026.57 and section 1026.58. Section 1026.57 requires a credit union that was a party to at least [...]
How many credit union employees can sit down and focus on a task without distractions when they need to? Only 26%. You didn’t misread that, only 26% of credit union employees are satisfied with [...]
