About 4.7 million homes sold in the US in 2024.Does that sound like a dead market?On the show today is James White of Total E...

This is the weather report from GAC, last week’s credit union confab in Washington DC.  On the show to report on key developments is Sarah Snell Cooke, former editor in chief and publisher of Credit Union Times and now a

Can a $350 million credit union play in the big leagues? Don’t tell Christine Blake, CEO of $350 million Cardinal Credit Uni...

Cliff Rosenthal literally wrote the book on CDFIs, community development financial institutions.  Hear his story in this podcast that dates back to 2019, episode 37 <...

Here’s the money question  for you to ponder: : should you close that branch on  Third Street and open a new branch in a neighboring town? Keep in mind that the ballpark cost of opening a new branch is $2.5 million. As for costs in a ...

Call this your must listen podcastg before GAC.Because in this show you will be hearing explicit advice about your CAC 2025 to do.Here's what is at stake: the credit union tax exmption on the future of NCUA.Will credit unio...

If I told you I have a podcast where a credit union executive tells you about high rates on CDs, free checking, and super cheap new car loans, how quickly would you turn the dial and give a listen to Joe Rogan?Right,...

Keith Leggett is a name that used to provoke cursing by usually mild mannered credit union executives - and so here he is again in a CU 2.0 Golden Oldies podcast.Leggett has retired from the American Bankers Associat...

Could this really be the end?For going on 20 years I have heard screams - usually emanating from one trade group - that the credit union tax exemption was in peril.  I thought that was a terrific membership rene...

Here’s the question: Is the First Tech - DCU merger of behemoths a sign of mergers to come or it is an outlier, a one-off deal that arose because of unique circumstances and histories??Kirk Kordeleski, onetime CEO at...

Live from Munich Germany on today’s podcast is Dr. Marlene Wolfgruber, AI Strategy Lead at global automation company ABBYY...

If I say a temp worker, probably you think of a fill in receptionist and that’s true as far as it goes.  But talk with O2 Consulting Group and it’s a plunge into a whole new wor...

Here’s the bad news: AI today is more of a promise than a working reality at most credit unions, says Al;ex JImenzez, a consultant with

When Bert Hash, Jr. took over as CEO of MECU in 1996 it was a $400 million institution with one branch that served municipal employees of Baltimore. In this podcast he tells about the institution he took charge of. It had exactly zero ATMs.&nbs...

Beware the shiny tech objects.On the show today is Tennessee Credit Union League's CRO David Griffiths who says a huge problem many of the league’s credit unions wrestle with is fragmented technology adoption - how d...

Thank you for joining our podcast with Doug Brown of Candescent.That’s no mistake.  I have talked with Doug many times but always before he has worn an NCR hat where he was president of digital banking.  He...

Steve Winninger is the man to talk with about credit union boards and governance.A longtime credit union CEO - 20 years at Lake Trust - now a $1.6 billion institution based in Michigan - plus he also served as CEO at IBM Lexin...

Yet another show about AI but this conversation with Chris Cox, COO at Apiture, a North Carolina based digital banking company, covers the gamut from small, prac...

Call this show all you never wanted to know about the fraudemic that credit unions today are fighting - but you have to know about it because knowledge is a key to beating the armies ff criminals who are besieging FIs across America....

Can credit unions help eradicate racism in America?Renee Sattiewhite says so in this 2020 podcast that is our greatest hit #20.But ask her if there is racism in US financial instit...

Literally a couple days before I recorded this podcast with Siva Narendra, CEO and founder of Tyfone and now Payfinia, a

AI - it’s the word on every lip in credit union land as most institutions scramble to find ways to usefully harness AI.And then there is Glia, the company known for contact center tools that are at work in many credi...

Latino Community Credit Union was founded in 2000 in Durham NC when the community was rocked by a wave of robberies - even murders - of Latino workers who were paid in cash and were believed to walk around with their pockets stuffed with ca...

Open banking - two words that just may change your life and this change is coming at you, ready or not.In late October the CFPB finalized a rule that made open banking a must have for the nation’s biggest financial i...

The United States is awash in medical debt.  How much is there? Hard to say but Kaiser Family Foundation has an estimate of $220 billion and, yes, that’s billion with a b.Enter CFPB, the