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NAFCU, trades caution Fed on merchants’ interchange motives

NAFCU, trades caution Fed on merchants’ interchange motives

NAFCU and several other financial services industry groups wrote Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve Board meeting on debit card interchange fees and routing under Regulation II. The groups urged [...]

Stopping fraud before it starts

Stopping fraud before it starts

The Fraud Strategy team put all the tools to work to stop a recent large scale fraud attempt. Early detection tools empowered the team to prevent a fraud scheme that could have cost millions of [...]

Learn some bank and credit union brand trigonometry

Learn some bank and credit union brand trigonometry

You probably just read that title and had horrified flashbacks to high school mathematics, but don’t worry…there aren’t any complicated equations here. Bank and credit union brand trigonometry is quite simple to [...]

11 fun ideas to make your golf tournament a success

11 fun ideas to make your golf tournament a success

2023 saw the 14th year of the Credit Union for Kids (CU4Kids) Golf Classic, hosted by Tennessee credit unions, US Community and Enbright. Over the past fourteen years, the CU4Kids Golf Classic has raised over $[...]

What’s most exciting about the new pot banking bill

What’s most exciting about the new pot banking bill

Pot banking advocates are excited about what they believe is their best chance yet at a federal law that allows financial institutions to serve the marijuana businesses more easily. The Senate Banking Committee passed the [...]

Credit union loans outstanding increased 0.8% in August

Credit union loans outstanding increased 0.8% in August

Credit union loans outstanding increased 0.8% in August, compared to a 0.7% increase in July of 2023 and a 1.7% increase in August of 2022, according to CUNA's latest Monthly Credit Union [...]

What happens if you don’t pay your student loans?

What happens if you don’t pay your student loans?

Many people turn to student loans to finance their higher education opportunities. But once you’ve taken out these loans, paying them off can be a difficult and stressful process. If you have student loans, [...]

Healthy growth in the age of economic uncertainty

Healthy growth in the age of economic uncertainty

Bank collapses, recession forecasts, and rising interest rates, oh my! If there’s anything we know for certain, it’s that uncertainty is here to stay. As much as we’ve tried to get back [...]

Celebrating 75 years of International Credit Union Day

Celebrating 75 years of International Credit Union Day

The credit union mantra of “people helping people” is needed more than ever in our world today. Whether it’s recovering from war, rebuilding after natural disasters, or simply helping communities get financially healthy, not-for-profit [...]