Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), offered his insights into the economy and likelihood of a recession, as well as administration efforts [...]
In mid-August, our family took a 10-day vacation to Nashville, where we stayed on a 200-acre working ranch with horses, a pool and a spotty internet connection. Two years ago, I would have panicked at [...]
Certain testing exercises can enable credit unions to gauge their internal controls, and find and fill their security gaps, according to two security experts. Peter Misurek, information security engineer at Royal Credit Union in Eau [...]
The man who oversees cybersecurity for the United States said he doesn’t want to be thought of as a person who frightens people, but he did just that in speaking to credit unions here, [...]
I recently made a weekday lunch-hour stop at my local Target. I was initially confused because parking lot was jam-packed on what shouldn’t be a busy day. Walking inside, I was greeted by smiling [...]
Names like Ticketmaster, Best Buy, Delta Airlines and the Atlanta Hawks might conjure images of fun and entertainment, but they all have something more unfortunate in common – all have been victims of digital fraud. Like [...]
Following the tragic and deadly terrorist attacks against the United States on the morning of September 11, 2001, compliance professionals around the globe were faced with the pressing need for protocols to detect and interrupt [...]
Generation X has it tough. A much smaller demographic than Boomers and Millennials, it’s often given short shrift by financial institutions. In fact, banks and credit unions serving small and midsize businesses should want [...]
Whether you’re entering the workforce as a full-time employee at age 18 or 22, if you’re done with school, then you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you. Unless you’re [...]
Have you ever left a meeting, and no one in the meeting could recall what decision was made about a specific topic? Were you ever in a meeting and thought, “these issues could have been [...]
Expectations and demands on credit union boards have never been greater. Challenges of ever-changing business trends and industry disruption, especially related to technology and cybersecurity, require advanced skill levels and continuous learning. When you add [...]
While offering loans can provide increased profitability for credit unions, there are some potential downfalls and risk when it comes to the lending industry. In recent years, the auto-loan and credit card industries have seen [...]
The House passed two CUNA-supported bills on appraiser requirements and diversity Tuesday, the Homebuyer Assistance Act of 2019 (H.R. 2852) and the Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019 (H.R. 281). CUNA wrote in [...]
NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger kicked off the association's 2019 Congressional Caucus with an in-depth Washington update for the hundreds of credit union representatives in town to advocate for credit union priorities. He also [...]
We have been fielding a lot of calls about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and its potential impact on companies here in the U.S. The short story is that GDPR will [...]
