Credit Unions Are Having a Moment: Here’s How You Can Capitalize On It
In the current economic environment, the stars are aligning for credit unions to be consumers’ number one choice of financial institution—but not if they don’t capitalize on it. Reid Downey shares how credit unions can be ready to meet the moment.
Why Credit Unions Must Scale Beyond Geography To Compete In 2026
As credit unions step away from their strict geographical limits (while still engaging in their communities), Sarah Milovich discusses how credit unions can build scale into their game plan and ensure they have the capability to do so.
Keep Purpose Constant: Reflections from GAC and the Gospel of Servanthood
Reflecting on her time at last week’s GAC, Denise Wymore wonders if credit unions haven’t ventured too far from their mission and calls on the industry to remember its roots.
Washington Post Opinion on Taxing Credit Unions
Chip Filson discusses the history of credit unions’ tax exemption, why it was created in the first place, if we are still the same industry that was granted it to begin with, and what we would do without it.
Can Credit Unions Buy Their Way to Success?
In an effort to increase their membership, credit unions have been offering cash rewards for new account openings, loans, and more. Chip Filson wonders at the long-term effects of such a strategy and what it might mean for the relationship between financial institution and member.
Credit Unions: Fall Back in Love With Your Mission
As we celebrate the season of love, Emily Claus encourages credit unions to stop trying to mimic the competition, but to instead fall back in love with their mission of people over profit and to use their cooperative foundations to stand out from the rest.
Goldilocks and the Three Fields of Membership
Are fields of membership outdated? Or are they what keep credit unions focused on their communities and away from chasing members wherever they can be found? CUSO Magazine’s Esteban Camargo suggests it’s not FOMs holding us back, but how we serve.
Have We Become the Industry We Were Formed to Replace?
As credit unions hyperfocus on growth and income, Denise Wymore wonders that if in our rush to beat the big banks and compete with neobanks, we have slowly transformed ourselves into them.
A Post Every Credit Union Employee Should Read
As an industry that prizes itself on putting people before profit, should we not also priotitize creating opportunites for future generations within the credit union? Thanks to mergers, credit union leaders are pulling the ladder up behind them, preventing future generations from taking on roles that should have been theirs, Chip Filson argues.
The Credit Union, the CDC, and the CUSO
Using a real-world example, Mike Hales shares how credit unions can collaborate with CUSOs and Community Development Corporations to better meet the needs of small businesses in their communities.
