The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed non-farm payrolls increased by 379,000 in February, with the unemployment rate dipping to 6.2 percent. NAFCU Chief Economist and Vice President of Research Curt Long analyzed the [...]
The hype around artificial intelligence and other neural technologies has spun up some pretty fantastic tall tales, a few scary enough to make a person want to drop completely off the grid (if that were [...]
If Amy Nelson, president/CEO of $103 million asset Point West Credit Union, Portland, Ore., could offer her younger self some advice, it would be this: “Don’t waste time worrying if you are good [...]
COVID has left me a little stir crazy, and one way I decided to cope with that was by setting a big goal: running a marathon at the end of March. It’s mostly going [...]
We need courage in many different kinds of conversations. Typical examples include handling conflict, confronting a co-worker, expressing an unpopular idea on a team, asking for a favor, saying no to a request for a [...]
For years, some members of our staff have lobbied for the flexibility to work from home. I have resisted because I believe a key success factor for our credit union is our ability to relate [...]
The way people work is changing. Employees are finding themselves working from more locations around the office as the financial industry transitions from task-based roles to more complex and collaborative project-based work. Yet workplaces are [...]
With nearly $2 billion in assets and over 142,000 members, the Credit Union of Colorado is a strong example of a rapidly expanding and successful credit union. To continue its steady growth, the credit [...]
On March 1, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a report about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing insecurity. The report’s executive summary notes that “this report summarizes some of the [...]
Thank you for tuning in to episode 3 of The CUInsight Network, with your host, Randy Smith, co-founder of CUInsight.com. In The CUInsight Network, we take a deeper dive with the thought leaders who [...]
Credit unions are a solution for policymakers searching for ways to rebuild their communities. Their success is tied to the development of the communities they serve because credit unions are member-owned and operated. And with [...]
You are probably already familiar with the term SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). However, you may not be as well acquainted with PaaS (Payments-as-a-Service). PaaS can also refer to Platform-as-a-Service, but here we will be exploring Payments-as-a-Service. PaaS ([...]
Maybe you’ve heard of the credit union awareness campaign spearheaded by CUNA, Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union, and perhaps you’ve wondered how it’s going. After all, if you’re a [...]
CUNA joined other financial services organizations Friday to call on House and Senate Small Business Committee leadership to urge the Small Busines Administration to make every effort to clear the thousands of Paycheck Protection Program ([...]
Despite the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, membership at federally-insured credit unions continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2020 – reaching 124.3 million – according to the NCUA's latest call report data. In [...]
