One moment the streets are clear and dry. Suddenly the sky dumps its full buckets onto the parched open hands of the dirt. It is rainy malaria season in Uganda. My Uganda credit union colleagues [...]
What’s the deal with the housing market, and how does it affect you? Those are among the questions CUNA Chief Economist Mike Schenk answered during a recent interview with Buzzfeed. With housing prices on [...]
NAFCU has announced the eight winners of its 2021 Annual Awards, which honor member credit unions and credit union professionals and volunteers for excellence and achievement in the industry. This year's awards recognized the CEO [...]
Industry shifts are cyclical, and while these shifts do happen regularly, the fintech wave is something we haven’t seen before. What we saw with Check 21, we’re now seeing with the faster payments [...]
In this episode, you’ll hear from fraud fighting expert, Ann Davidson, about the trends of payment card, ACH and wire fraud, how to spot fraud before it happens, and tactical ways to put prevention [...]
Dozens of major companies, state and federal agencies and other organizations that misconfigured a setting in their Microsoft software inadvertently exposed millions of people's personal information to the public internet for months, according to security [...]
Effective with their April 15, 2022 releases, Visa and MasterCard will begin supporting 8-digit issuing BINs in accordance with the forthcoming migration from 6-digit to 8-digit issuer identification numbers (IINs) as announced in 2015 by [...]
Britney Spears’ 13 year struggle to break her conservatorship and achieve financial independence recently swept back through the social media spotlight. Fueled by her fans’ support, the #FreeBritney campaign calls for an end to the [...]
A couple of weeks ago we blogged about the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC) recently issued Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations (AIO) booklet. Because of the length of the booklet, the blog examined how [...]
In any profession, if you're standing still, you're going to get passed. It's important to keep learning, growing, and getting stronger. Here are some you can kick your performance up a notch... Stay current: Industries [...]
Economies of scale have always represented a strong reason for credit unions to pursue mergers, and since the emergence of COVID-19, the rationale for achieving cost efficiency has become an even stronger motivation for mergers. [...]
I began my credit union career over 40 years ago as a teller. I came into the industry at the dawn of the share draft account. I saw the quick adoption and religious-like devotion to [...]
I learned long ago that to get more you must give more. I look at service as a backstage pass with benefits that bystanders just don’t receive. I’m a soccer dad and not [...]
CUNA applauds the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for providing clarity and consistency by ensuring there is a codified discriminatory effects standard, but urges it to offer a safe harbor for policies directly [...]
The House this week has returned from its August recess to consider the Senate-passed Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Budget Resolution. Yesterday, the House Rules Committee met to attempt to set up a rule that would [...]
