GAC – Traditional Media & Social Media…Hand in Hand
By. Michael Ogden, CUNA Mutual Group We are just days away from this year’s Government Affairs Conference (GAC) out in D.C. And from what I’m hearing, it’s going to be like [...]
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2013 Research Theme
By. Sustainable Growth Every year our Team picks a major theme around which our research efforts will center. In 2011, we focused on Sustainable Growth, looking at the relationship between earnings, capital and asset growth. [...]
Twitter’s Dirty Little Secret
By Michael Ogden, CUNA Mutual Group I’m terrible at keeping secrets and I’m an awful liar. For instance, I believe I’m a better cook than my mother. I love you mom, but [...]
2012 – The Year Credit Unions Took the Social Media Leap
By Michael Ogden, CUNA Mutual Group Social media is no longer a novelty item – and it appears a good portion of the credit union system has figured that out. Credit Unions and their social media [...]
The “Disappeared”
Since the beginning of 2008, the year the financial crisis began, 1,175 credit unions have merged or otherwise closed for business according to NCUA’s 5300 Call Report data. These credit unions, whose last [...]
Finally a Tailwind?
With declining interest rates and anemic total loan growth for the last three years, it’s nice to see the winds may be changing. In the October Credit Union Trends Report, Dave Colby talked about [...]
New Credit Union Math: Mobile + Social = Mocial?
by Michael Ogden, CUNA Mutual Group The words “mobile” and “social” are becoming intertwined and interchangeable more and more. Two years ago they were completely separate issues. But now with credit unions creeping up their [...]
What the Visionaries See, and What We Can Learn From Them
Many of you have no doubt read the October issue of CU Magazine which invited a number of visionary leaders of the U.S. credit union system to briefly describe their vision of what the [...]
Is Lazy Contagious?
by: Michael Ogden, Media Relations Manager for New Media, CUNA Mutual Group There’s a disease spreading throughout the credit union system. It’s contagious and the most vulnerable are the lazy people. It’s [...]
Debit Fee Interchange Income: All Clear or Danger Ahead?
In our last post, CUs’ Checking-Related Fees = Better Value for Consumers, we noted that increases in the credit union system’s other operating income as a percentage of average assets are generally off-setting recent declines [...]
CUs’ Checking-Related Fees = Better Value for Consumers
Recently, Bankrate.com released results of its 2012 surveys on bank and credit union checking fees. A comparison of these two surveys suggests that the 50 largest credit unions appear to be widening their relative [...]
It Takes More to Change the World than Just Believing
by: Michael Ogden, Media Relations Manager for New Media, CUNA Mutual Group We plan. We draft strategic documents. We have lots of meetings. We do these things because we believe in the credit union industry [...]
The Month of Mobile!
July may have been the hottest month on record in the U.S., but August turned out to be a sizzling month of mobile payments news that will change the landscape and accelerate the adoption [...]
Plan Now to Spread Your Credit Union Holiday Cheer
by: Michael Ogden, Media Relations Manager for New Media, CUNA Mutual Group The holidays are less than four months away and September is the time to get your holiday social media ducks (or reindeer) in [...]
Credit Unions Are In Love….With Video
by: Michael Ogden, Media Relations Manager for New Media, CUNA Mutual Group You credit union people are head-over-heels in love with video! To that, I say, “Get a room!” Last month we conducted a little [...]