NCUA finalized its latest field-of-membership rule Thursday at its board meeting, re-instating portions of the rule vacated in March 2018 by a U.S. District Court Decision. Those portions of the rule were upheld by [...]
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Wednesday maintained the federal funds target rate near its current range of 0 to 0.25 percent. The committee noted it "expects to maintain this target range until it [...]
Several years ago, Deedee Myers, Ph.D.—CEO of CUESolutions Silver provider DDJ Myers Ltd., a Phoenix-based firm providing executive search/recruitment, strategic organization and leadership consulting services—looked at her company’s placement data. [...]
COVID-19 has created unique challenges for the home appraisal process—nationwide shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines have made it difficult for appraisers to do on-site inspections, which means that turnaround times and appraisal fees [...]
Do more with less. That’s smart business, especially in shaky and uncertain times like we’re in now. But efficiency also takes the ability to be collaborative, creative and think differently. Aren’t those [...]
Procuring labor and materials is one of the most challenging aspects of project management, but in the procurement process are opportunities to mitigate cost and scheduling risks, find the best value for materials and labor, [...]
This spring, a pair of similar-sized credit unions — one in the big city suburbs and one in a smaller-town setting — faced a challenge familiar to many credit unions across the country. Arlington Community Federal Credit [...]
When historians look back on 2020, I believe they’ll observe a shocking disruption in society’s evolutionary patterns. Lessons it would have taken years to learn were discovered nearly overnight. Acceptance of new ideas [...]
Many people thought the pandemic’s disruption would be short-lived. When many credit unions closed their branches this spring, few dreamed that reopening them would happen at a time when the number of virus cases [...]
Over the last few months, we’ve seen an explosion of video content across platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and more. For the most part, quarantine has been a golden age for organic video [...]
WFH initiatives heighten security concerns As discussed in the article "Is Digital Transformation a Victim of Covid-19" the “Covid-19 pandemic is putting growing pressure on organizations to expand their digital transformation efforts to include work [...]
The Senate Republican COVID-19 relief legislation unveiled this week, the HEALS Act, contains CUNA-supported liability protection, as well as other Paycheck Protection Program reforms. The House passed its COVID-19 relief bill, the HEROES Act, in [...]
The CFPB Tuesday issued a request for information (RFI) related to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B to ensure a regulatory environment that expands access to credit and ensures all consumers and [...]
It is safe to say that for most of us, the COVID-19 global pandemic is unprecedented and was unexpected. However, while the pandemic itself may have been a new and different type of crisis, the [...]
There’s no way around it—2020 has been a stressful year. Between increased health anxieties over the global coronavirus pandemic, adjusting to shelter-in-place orders, transitioning to work-from-home and learning to navigate remote learning while [...]
