Existing-home sales tumbled 17.8 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.33 million units, reaching its lowest level since July 2010. NAFCU Chief Economist and Vice President of Research Curt [...]
As health officials around the globe seek to contain the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, economies and citizens remain unsettled. In recent times in the United States, public events have been canceled, the government has [...]
You might want to re-evaluate. According to one of the world’s foremost experts on customer experience, it might not be what you think it is. Luckily, we’ve got that very expert on this [...]
This weekend, we will honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Having spent my career in the public sector working in the Defense and Homeland Security environment, I [...]
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a consent order against Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC (SLS). The consent order came after the CFPB concluded its investigation into certain practices related to SLS’s [...]
Since March, social distancing practices enacted to help slow spread of the coronavirus have plunged us all into a “new normal” of staying at home, self-servicing, shopping online, and curb-side grocery pickup. While there are [...]
Right now, in the midst of an intense global pandemic, people are staying inside. They’re not going to restaurants, or gyms, or even to church. And they are certainly trying not to take unnecessary [...]
Throughout our careers, we will experience failure. I've previously shared how failure can be good for us: We learn from our mistakes and it can make us more empathetic. But from a leadership standpoint, how [...]
Welcome to the CUInsight Minute, sixty seconds from our Publisher & CEO Lauren Culp with the top three of our favorite things from the week. Mentioned this week: *Happy Memorial Day weekend! We're taking time [...]
Since 1971, we’ve observed Memorial Day on the last Monday of May. As a federal holiday, many of us have enjoyed this as an excuse to have parades, fire up the grill or head [...]
Last week, the NCUA approved a technical correction to 12 USC § 701.34 (2), which will now include all military members in calculations to establish Low Income Credit Union (LICU) designation. This change makes sense [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic and increasing digital transformation efforts further threaten organizations’ systems, applications and data security. What more can you do to protect yourselves? Digital transformation initiatives and projects are underway in a majority of [...]
In late 2019 and early 2020, when we prepared and first distributed our series on risk mitigation, we did so with the 10+ year bull market and other current economic variables in mind. We recognized [...]
The NCUA Board issued a proposed rule and an interim final rule during its Thursday board meeting, conducted via live audio stream. The board also heard a quarterly update on the National Credit Union Share [...]
President Donald Trump Tuesday signed an executive order requiring agencies to take measures to eliminate, modify, waive, or exempt burdensome regulatory requirements in efforts to help support economic recovery from the effects of the coronavirus [...]
