How Does the Recent Unemployment Rate Impact Your Business Strategy and Why Should You Care?
With a decreasing unemployment rate, finding qualified workers has become more of a struggle. Vic Pantea offers various strategies to help find the right people and improve where you can through technology and cooperative partners.
Five Things to Love About Credit Unions
On a day meant for celebrating love, Megan Ernsberger reminds us of some of the reasons we love credit unions. What do you love about your credit union?
To My Credit Union: Help Me Break Up With the Banks!
This Valentine’s Day, Kasey Hawkins is looking to break up with the banks by calling on her credit union to make an appealing offer and lure her away from the clutches of big banks once and for all. Will she succeed?
An Example for Today’s Credit Union Pioneers
A 95-year-old lesson on pioneering new credit unions is still applicable today. Chip Filson shares the lesson of fifteen women with $4.50, the difference that can make, and wonders who will be the pioneer of credit unions today.
Creating and Actively Following Your Credit Union Mission Statement
It’s one thing to have a mission statement, it’s another to actively follow it in your credit union’s daily business. Danielle Caliendo lays out why it’s important to have a community focused mission statement – and have your staff aim to live by it every day.
Peter Pan and Captain Hook in Credit Union Land
The credit union community seems divided by Peter Pans, who believe in a future for the cooperative model, and Captain Hooks, who see the end around every corner. Chip Filson sees this and asks, “Which one are you?”
The Need for “Around-The-Clock” Customer Service
Living the nine to five life can make it difficult to do business with your credit union. Kasey Hawkins sees the need for around-the-clock customer service, and she has a few ideas on how her (and your) credit union can achieve that.
What Credit Unions Can Learn from Bank Purchases
Why do bank shareholders get a better deal during an acquisition by a credit union than member-owners in a credit union merger? Chip Filson breaks down the financial details of the two, and wonders why merged credit union owners get a raw deal.
The Evolution of Currency: Person-to-Person Payments
From bartering how many how many apples a sheep is worth to sending payments electronically via our phones, person-to-person transactions have come a long way. Nicole Cooper discusses the benefits of these new methods, and how credit unions and members can get the most out of them.
NCUA Approves Bloated Budget Without Adjustments for Industry Complaints
Is the NCUA’s comment period just a dog and pony show? Vic Pantea might think so. He recaps the NCUA’s December board meeting and the approval of a budget that didn’t factor in complaints from the industry.
