Industry news

by: Brian Branch, President/CEO, World Council of Credit Unions
I serve on the advisory committee for the United Nations’ International Year of Cooperatives.  When we launched the year at the UN in New York last fall, we reached out to the media and provided them with information about our values, the cooperative ownership democracy, the member empowerment and the accessibility of cooperatives. They did not respond.  Yet two days later we had a call from MSNBC.

by: Bryan Clagett, Chief Marketing Officer, Geezeo
I have spent the last several years meeting with credit union people at conferences, trade shows and routine client visits. I do a fair job of keeping abreast of current affairs that impact the financial services industry. Economic forces, the regulatory environment and shifts in consumer behavior as a result of emerging technologies are the topics I hear spoken of or written about the most.