Fact: youth banking is the entry ramp into a credit union.  Fact 2: Credit unions, most of them, will admit that youth banking is not exactly their strongest suit.Enter Cardinal Credit U...

Go back to when I started to report on credit unions and there were over 8000 credit unions.  Now there are 4370.  In 2020 there were 5099 credit unions.  Just in five years the count is down by 700+.<...

Big data vs. AI.Is this a war inside the walls of credit unions or can the two flourish in harmony?On the show are Anne Legg, founder and CEO of

You have a brand.Know it or not, like it or not, you do.And on the show today is Laura Beauparlant, a Canada based keynote speake...

About 45 credit unions are customers of JUDI.AI and they are drawn by the company’s simple promise: Eliminate friction in business lending.There is money to be made serving ...

“Prepare: AI is the new CU crisis super villain.”  That’s the title of a recent CUInsight story authored by Casey Boggs, founder of

Exactly what is Room (39)a?There’s one at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center but today we are talking about the Room (39)a at CFCU, Community Financial Credit Union in Mi...

Three years ago Tropical Financial Credit Union, a $1 billion south Florida institution, signed on as a sponsor of the Florida Panthers and magic happened because the Panthers - in the National Hockey League - won the Stanley Cup in 2024 and...

Back on the show today after a hiatus is Kirk Kordeleski, onetime CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union and now a partner in Parc Street Partners where he focuses on credit union exe...

Tansley Stearns had been working in  a credit union for maybe five years when a big idea grabbed her: she decided she wanted to be a CEO of a credit union.For a young woman who had grown up on a farm in southern...

Whew, credit unions dodged the threat of loss of their tax exemption - but don’t think all is smooth sailing for credit unions in today’s turbulent Washington DC.  Lots is happening that may impact credit unions, large and small.

You might know it as the dismal science, but a conversation with Bill Handel, Chief Economist of Raddon, a Fiserv company, is anything but dismal.  It in fact...

I am not going to explain to you in any detail what TrustGrid does and that is because in the show Joe Gleinsner, ...

Now for a feel good show.Lee Silber has put together a book,

AI - is it real or a mirage?What is certain is that today AI is on the lips on just about everyone in credit union land.What also is real is a recent MIT

In a year about 500 members of First City Credit Union in Pasadena die.  It’s a credit union with 57,000 members.And what happened after the member’s death?On the show is

This is a CU 2.0 Podcast first.Never before, in almost 500 episodes, have we done this.On the show is Crystal Zarse, a member of Interra Credit Union, a $1.7 billion Indiana based institution...

Call this a week of different kinds of shows.Today we are doing something we have never done before.  The guest - the only guest - is

When will you retire?What years of your life should be the ones where you work the longest, hardest hours?On the show today is Derek ...

You probably have forgotten about the role of credit unions in the country’s marijuana business - estimated to be north of $40 billion.  I know I had. It’s been years since we did a show on this topic.But on the...

What exactly does a credit union’s chief strategy officer do?  On the show today is Bill Snider, the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at...

Could shared services be the cure that puts a halt to the epidemic of mergers among credit unions?Could shared services help credit unions increase their efficiencies and dramatically lower their costs so that they c...

What’s in your credit union’s name?Shakespeare told us a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.But credit union leaders are busy renaming their institutions, often for solid, fundamenta...

About 55% of outstanding US home mortgages have interest rates below 4% and a byproduct is that those homeowners are deeply reluctant to move because it would usually mean taking out a new mortgage at 6% or more.Ente...

Suddenly youth banking is back in the conversation and that’s because this time there is real optimism that it’s a product that’s emerging at the right time.  Case in point of the optimism is a recent Finovate article headlined “