Four Tips to Achieve Your 2013 Strategic Goals
by Mark Arnold It’s hard to believe, but the calendar just flipped another year from 2012 to 2013. Financial institutions across the country have spent immeasurable hours and dollars ...
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Credit Union Legal Hurdles for 2013
BY E. ANDREW KEENEY Credit Union Times recently asked the attorneys on the Credit Union Team at Kaufman & Canoles for their predictions for the top 10 major legal challenges for ...
Earnings per Member: An Alternative Benchmark to Measure Financial Performance
by Gee Gee Kaufman Tired of ROAA as the principle yardstick to measure financial performance? I offer another benchmark that assesses the overall execution of the business model and incorporates ...
The Less-Cash Society
by Ron Shevlin Talk about the death of cash goes back thousands of years. Of course, to many Gen Yers, the world began in 1978, so what ever happened before ...
What Does a Business Continuity Program Look Like?
by Kirk Drake If you believe that business continuity planning is living & breathing processes than this blog is for you. If you believe it is something that you do because ...
“We Improve Lives”
We talked about credit union messaging working at two levels: the first level of messaging to attract non-members and the second level to gain the loyalty of the members. We ...
Adjusting to the Realities of a New Year
BY SARAH SNELL COOKE Forget that jobless claims were revised upward, even higher than initial projections. The New Year is a time for optimism. As California CU League Economist Dwight ...
The Business Lending End Game
By Jim Devine In the financial institution world, recently there had been much ado about something: S. 2231/H. R. 1418, the Credit Union Small Business Lending Enhancement Act. This ...