Credit Union’s Opportunity to Reconnect with their Most “Essential” Members

Credit Union’s Opportunity to Reconnect with their Most “Essential” Members

Now that massive layoffs are beginning to hit white-collar workers, Chip Filson urges credit unions to offer their support, while never forgetting the essential members that got them to where they are today.

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Strategies to Avoid Mergers: Adopting a Broker Model

Strategies to Avoid Mergers: Adopting a Broker Model

Credit union consolidation and mergers pose a threat to the industry’s many CUSOs and vendors, say Liz Winninger and Victor Pantea. Assisting credit unions in adopting a broker-like model, they argue, can help credit unions increase their product and service offerings and potentially avoid mergers altogether.

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Re-Imagining Federal Credit Unions’ Fields of Membership

Re-Imagining Federal Credit Unions’ Fields of Membership

Chip Filson shares some history on how Ed Callahan helped shape the credit union industry by opening up new possibilities in credit union field of membership, seeking to repurpose it as a building block, not a regulatory hurdle.

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Advocating For Choice: Private Insurance

Advocating For Choice: Private Insurance

Per the Michigan Credit Union Act, all state-charted credit unions are required to use National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) as their deposit insurance provider. Julie Gessner argues this lack of choice only hurts members in the end and encourages legislative change.

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Credit Union Ownership Education and Assuming the Obvious

Credit Union Ownership Education and Assuming the Obvious

In an effort to educate their members on all things financial wellness, credit unions are often in danger of skipping over how they can educate their members as owners. Emily Claus discusses the importance of ownership education and how credit unions can teach “the obvious.”

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The Gaps in High School Financial Education Courses

The Gaps in High School Financial Education Courses

Although mandatory financial education courses for high schoolers is growing, it is still only a requirement in a tiny portion of the United States. Chip Filson calls on credit unions to help bridge the gap as states add these courses to their curricula.

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Missing the Forest for the Trees: Today’s Website Trends

Missing the Forest for the Trees: Today’s Website Trends

Trends are constantly changing and adapting, and website trends are no different. Marketing Manager Peter Meyers discusses some of the latest website design crazes and how you can best incorporate them into your site.

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The Question of Board Compensation

The Question of Board Compensation

Once unheard of, board compensation is becoming a more common practice. But often, the pay is not in line with the amount of work being done, and the methods fall outside the cooperative guidelines. Emily Claus examines the going rate for board members and the justifications credit unions use for these amounts.

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Tech Layoffs and Lessons for Credit Unions

Tech Layoffs and Lessons for Credit Unions

Chip Filson warns credit unions not to follow in the tech industry’s footsteps in the race to shrink workforces because others are, but to trust in staff and their impact on members.

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Credit Unions’ Role in an Increasingly Cashless Society

Credit Unions’ Role in an Increasingly Cashless Society

As nations begin to transition to cashless societies, eschewing cash and coin for digital payments solutions, CUSO Magazine’s Esteban Camargo wonders what credit unions’ role should be to their communities.

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