Throughout September of 2021, we conducted our quarterly survey on credit union growth to help industry executives identify trends, compare plans and pace with peers, and anticipate the future direction of industry. The driving factor [...]
It’s officially spooky season! It gets dark earlier in the day, the moon was full last night, scary movies are all the rage, and all sorts of creepy crawly costumed creatures will soon be [...]
When a credit union executive cites successfully deploying Office products during a pandemic as a major accomplishment, that’s a sign they’re a committed back-office person, someone responsible for the smooth functioning of a [...]
Thank you for tuning in to episode 122 of The CUInsight Experience podcast with your host, Randy Smith, co-founder of CUInsight.com. This episode is brought to you by CUES. CUES is the leading talent [...]
Last month, I wrote about how credit unions have an awesome natural lead channel given their deep roots and high visibility in the communities they serve, but how most don’t leverage that competitive advantage [...]
As another International Credit Union Day® passes, World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) looks forward to another event on the calendar that should be just as important to credit unions around the world: Financial Inclusion [...]
The art of storytelling is not new but technology for identifying, engaging, and responding to audiences is always evolving. For this reason, the Dakota Credit Union Association’s 2021 New Ideas Conference married classic marketing [...]
Eligible low-income credit unions (LICUs) may accept 30-year subordinated debt investments from the Treasury’s Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP), as detailed in a letter to credit unions (21-CU-11) from NCUA. A LICU may treat [...]
House Financial Services Committee Member Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn. and 201 Members of Congress yesterday wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressing concerns associated with the proposed threshold increase from $600 to $10,000 or [...]
There’s a great line in the movie The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “Inconceivable” is the word the movie character was [...]
As a big fan of vitamin D and ardent supporter of my own mental health, I start dreading the end of daylight saving time sometime around July. In my mind, driving home from work at [...]
Regulators are gearing up to ask questions about how financial institutions are managing climate change risk. While NCUA to date has not published any specifics on the subject, there are plenty of documents from other [...]
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6K91mwYazbp4jzbf3aXAt5 With many Zoomers new to banking products and services, there is much to learn about what financial institutions can do to appeal to them specifically. In this podcast, two [...]
There was so much good material at the 2021 Innovation Spotlight event, I could write for weeks about all the smart things I heard there. In keeping with my favorite subject for a bit, I [...]
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) may be the phrase of the year – and with good reason. After centuries of insidious, systemic, seemly insurmountable racism in the U.S. we’re at a tipping point. People [...]
