Is your credit union ready to offer member business loans? That is the question addressed in the CUNA Lending Council's new white paper, entitled Commercial Collections: A Partnership Between the Collector and the Loan Officer. [...]
We all know Disney. For nearly a century, they’ve been the masters of creating magic for children and adults around the world, from a certain mouse that most of us grew up with to [...]
It's a name that you’ve probably seen at conferences, on pamphlets, sponsorship banners and many other places. As the various CUNA Council names start to show up more and more throughout our movement, my [...]
by: Matt Calman Innovation, we can all agree, is critical for success, and even survival, in today’s fast-evolving banking industry. At the same time, as every banker knows, innovation is easy to talk about [...]
Take a moment, if you will, to picture a credit union chief financial officer. Where are they? What are they doing? Are they on stage accepting an award for all the hard work they’ve [...]
by: Brian Wringer A while back, we ran a poll asking credit union marketers “Does marketing have a voice at your board and/or management meetings?” To our surprise, we found that only half of [...]
by: Shannon Van Sickler The family home. It’s where the day starts and ends for virtually every member of a credit union. Your members’ homes are the foundation from which their life grows. When [...]
by: Tom Danielson Like visiting a doctor for a physical, your financial institution should periodically test the health of its Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) model. It’s not just a good business [...]
by: Chris Skinner I realized something about this new market of financial technology the other day, where banks become financial systems integrators. The realization was that banks really should think about what they are doing [...]
by: Zilvinas Bareisis Over a year ago, we published a 2014 edition of our annual Top Retail Payment Trends Report (2015 edition is here), in which we distinguished between app-based wallets – majority of mobile payments [...]
by: Ashley Binder A few decades ago, it was fairly common for a person to secure a job immediately following graduation from school and remain with the company until retirement. Those days are gone, and [...]
by: Brooke Howell These days, content marketing is essential to getting your business noticed and connecting with customers and prospects. Once you’ve gotten started, though, it’s important to continually monitor your performance, learn [...]
by: Amanda Lowery You’ve spent months (maybe years) aggressively courting members in their prime borrowing years to offset your credit union’s aging Baby Boomer population. You’ve run promotions, offered incentives, competed on [...]
by: Steve Gravenkemper Risk mitigation—it is the phrase which calls organizations to action. Increasingly, financial institutions are recognizing that facilitating seamless leadership transitions for key positions is a critical factor in sustaining the success [...]
by: Sundeep Kapur A friend of mine runs marketing for a financial institution. They used to host a quarterly financial best practices workshop to enhance relationships with existing members and also attract a few new [...]
