Culture is the foundation of a company's success. It's how you attract and retain talent. It's how you live up to your members'/customers' expectations. It thrives when leaders embody its characteristics and lead by [...]
Welcome to the CUInsight Minute, sixty seconds from our Community & Marketing Coordinator Courtney Scott with our favorite reads from the week. Mentioned: Credit unions: Providing a better payments experience for your members by MELISSA [...]
Everybody loves New Year’s Eve. It’s a chance to kiss the year goodbye and get a fresh start. If you enjoy making New Year’s resolutions, you’ve probably promised yourself a variety [...]
Let’s face it — the coronavirus pandemic has dominated our focus for the last year. On the ground, you have balanced members’ pressing concerns about their financial well-being with maintaining staff health and safety. In [...]
This fall I had the opportunity to partner with Junior Achievement to work with high school seniors to solve a challenge for the credit union. The challenge posed was one with which all credit unions [...]
Credit unions spreading kindness can strengthen trust in our communities, build connections, grow the movement, and respond to the pressing challenges of our time. CU FORWARD, a Minnesota state-wide initiative of credit unions collaborating to [...]
Credit unions improve members’ financial well-being and advance the communities they serve, CUNA wrote to Congressional leadership Wednesday, outlining several priorities for the new Congress. CUNA wrote a similar letter to the Biden administration prior [...]
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted via videoconference Wednesday to maintain the federal funds target rate at its current range of 0 to 0.25 percent as the economy works to recover from the [...]
While a growing number of employers are taking proactive steps to address the rising awareness, and prevalence, of mental health issues impacting their organizations, mental health continues to carry a certain amount of stigma. Some [...]
Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian said Thursday that the GameStop stock-trading frenzy, originating in large part on the online platform he helped create, is a turning point in the U.S. investing landscape. “I do think [...]
Artificial intelligence is still a somewhat new technology, but it already has the capacity to offer real-world business outcomes for financial institutions in the form of productivity improvement, cost savings and happier customers. Despite all [...]
“Diversity and inclusion” is a phrase we have been hearing for a while but in the past few years, it’s become an essential part of organizations around the world. We hear diversity and inclusion [...]
The national personal savings rate hit 14.3% in September, according to data from the St. Louis Fed. This is the second-highest rate since 1975. Higher savings paired with low interest rates drove up deposits [...]
Real-time payments (RTP) have been discussed for decades, but they only achieved true momentum within the last few years. Industry changes, combined with the effects of the pandemic, have accelerated the trajectory for mass-market adoption [...]
An ever increasing number of credit unions around the country have been responsibly banking cannabis businesses (specifically marijuana) for years by following the compliance framework outlined in FinCEN’s 2014 guidance “BSA Expectations Regarding Marijuana-Related [...]
