The latest from Jeremy Colvin

Mar 30, 2018 - by Jeremy Colvin, CU Capital Market Solutions

Institutional sales must take a holistic approach

I have been in the institutional sales space for 20 years, and most of that time has been spent working with domestic depository institutions. Over that period, several significant changes ...

Dec 19, 2017 - by Jeremy Colvin, CU Capital Market Solutions

Get under the hood with your funding sources

Regulatory pressure around liquidity is palpable for the first time in a long time. As a result, we are having funding discussions multiple times a day at CMS with credit ...

Oct 17, 2017 - by Jeremy Colvin, CU Capital Market Solutions

“Oh, we can’t do that”

As a credit union, have you heard this before, or worse yet, have you spoken these words?  Why is this one of the few industries dominated by what we can’...

Sep 20, 2017 - by Jeremy Colvin, CU Capital Market Solutions

Regulations protect but can also enable innovation

The analogy always holds true: the same old thinking equals the same old results. The financial markets and expectations of the financial consumer have vastly changed in the past 30 ...

Aug 23, 2017 - by Jeremy Colvin, CU Capital Market Solutions

Desperately seeking spread

Many of you may remember the 1985 cult classic “Desperately Seeking Susan.” In this movie, an unfulfilled New Jersey housewife seeks to break out of her mundane, predictable life and ...

Jul 18, 2017 - by Jeremy Colvin, CU Capital Market Solutions

Here’s how to solve your too big to fail liquidity problem

Why did non-member funding increase more than 25% from Q4 2016 to Q1 2017? Why did investments with durations from one to three years decrease 12.4% over the same ...