Our Design Directory Jenny Bengeult joins Kelly Hellickson and Hilary Reed at EmpowerFion their podcast The Speakeasy for a series of three episodes on credit union trends relative to employees, brand, and workplaces. In the [...]
The other day, I received some mail with a mega bank’s logo and some big blue text that said, “Earn up to $700.” Of course, I had to open it...$700 is no small [...]
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) released its Q1 2021 data. Here are some key performance indicators: Total loans outstanding increased $49 billion, or 4.4%, over the year ending in the first quarter of [...]
If you haven't read Josh Mitchell’s article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Is the U.S. Student Loan Program Facing a $500 Billion Dollar Hole. One Banker Thinks So,” I would encourage you [...]
Many years ago, my partner and I moved into a new house in a new neighborhood. It was a beautiful house in a wonderful area. Some of our neighbors greeted us with the simple “Hello! [...]
CUNA’s Small Credit Union Committee published a comprehensive white paper Tuesday examining the key opportunities and challenges facing small credit unions. The State of Small Credit Unions Today outlines how cross-industry support can lead [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported non-farm payrolls increased by 850,000 in June, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.9 percent. NAFCU Chief Economist and Vice President of Research Curt Long analyzed [...]
A credit union is much more than monetary values and financial transactions. It’s about the people behind those operations—who can, quite frankly, make or break your organization. Credit union members want to feel [...]
The credit union regulatory environment is intended to provide safety and soundness to a movement that has nearly $2 trillion in assets and more than 125 million member-owners. For credit union leaders, compliance is a [...]
As world economies grapple with lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses that are laser-focused on and actively investing in digital transformation will thrive — as evidenced by two-thirds of executives already indicating increased investment.1 [...]
In the last year or so, we’ve shared several articles that included some version of this stat: Nearly half of all adult Americans don’t carry life insurance.1 The belief that life insurance [...]
Where do we go from here? The end of this documentary must herald some transformation that proves the financial crisis of cancer matters enough for us to fix it. The coronavirus pandemic gives us some [...]
The Underserved. The Unbanked. These populations deserve access to the services banks and credit unions provide, and, for our communities to be truly successful, FIs need to step up. Joining us this week on CRMNEXT’[...]
A quarter of nationwide auto loans are financed by credit unions, making auto lending a significant component of a credit union’s total loan portfolio. Now with 2022 fast approaching, and vehicle sales reaching pre-pandemic [...]
Thank you for tuning in to episode 114 of The CUInsight Experience podcast with your host, Randy Smith, co-founder of CUInsight.com. This episode is brought to you by our friends at CUES. CUES is [...]
