How to Promote Your Credit Union’s Twitter Account

How to Promote Your Credit Union’s Twitter Account

Twitter can be an overwhelming tool, and it may seem as though success on the platform is up to luck or money. However, Casey Smith disagrees and has quite a few ideas to get you started in promoting your credit union’s Twitter account.

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Cannabis and Credit Unions: House Passes the SAFE Banking Act

Cannabis and Credit Unions: House Passes the SAFE Banking Act

On April 19, 2021, the House officially passed the SAFE Banking Act, which aims to protect financial institutions servicing cannabis accounts. Emily Claus covers the path of the legislation, where it goes from here, and what its odds of success are.

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Online Banking Fraud Prevention: The Overlooked Superpower

Online Banking Fraud Prevention: The Overlooked Superpower

While everyone is looking for a new, fail-safe solution to online banking fraud, Seth Longcore maintains that an excellent solution has been around for awhile, people just aren’t using it.

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The Evolution of Tellers: Past, Present, and Future

The Evolution of Tellers: Past, Present, and Future

Emily Claus takes a trip through the evolution of the teller role and speculates what the future of the position may look like in the face of improving technology.

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A Cooperative Community Park

A Cooperative Community Park

Cooperatives know going it alone isn’t necessary. Chip Filson shares how six cooperatives, including three credit unions, combined resources to create a community park.

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Trade Groups Say IRS Coronavirus Payment Process is Confounding Credit Unions, Members

Trade Groups Say IRS Coronavirus Payment Process is Confounding Credit Unions, Members

The Internal Revenue Service’s “Get My Payment” portal to provide information to consumers about their federal coronavirus Economic Impact Payments is providing inaccurate information to many financial institutions and their customers, creating confusion for everyone involved, groups including CUNA, NAFCU, the ABA and the ICBA wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, reports David Baumann of the Washington CU Daily.

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Archive Media: Better Safe Than Sorry

Archive Media: Better Safe Than Sorry

Just as you’d never drive a car without insurance or buy a laptop without a warranty, Scott Shippy encourages credit unions to be prepared and play it safe in regards to their data retention.

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What We Can Learn from the Microsoft Exchange Hafnium Vulnerability

What We Can Learn from the Microsoft Exchange Hafnium Vulnerability

The Microsoft Exchange Hafnium vulnerability left many organizations’ email servers compromised. EVP of Technology Dave Wordhouse shares ways his organization clamps down on cybersecurity to mitigate the risk of compromised networks.

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From Manager to Virtual Manager: Methods for Staying in Contact with Your Team

From Manager to Virtual Manager: Methods for Staying in Contact with Your Team

While many of us are getting ready to return to our offices and desks, others are seeing work from home turn into a completely virtual position now and in the future. Whether in different offices or remote, how can managers help their teams in a virtual environment in the long term? Kasey Hawkins has a few ideas.

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The Budget, the Business Plan, and What It Means to the Everyday Employee

The Budget, the Business Plan, and What It Means to the Everyday Employee

Understanding your organization’s budget and business plan is not just for upper management. Matt Weber shares why he thinks understanding both can be advantageous from CEO down to line staff.

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