The Credit Union Generation Barrier.On the show today is Melissa Krut, VP of Success at Sogolytics, a Herndon Virginia based firm that focuses on data dr...

Rik Reitmaier is CIO at Tennessee based Ascend Federal Credit Union, with $4.4 billion in assets and 245,000. That puts Ascend in the nation’s

I fancy myself something of a minor expert on Medicare and often have advised friends who are approaching 65 about their best options.  Until a man I know approached me and asked for my advice.  He added he was dually qualified for...

Mark Ritter, CEO of Member Business Financial Services, a Pennsylvania based CUSO, estimates that about 800 US credit unions do member business lending, meaning that perhaps 3700 don’t....

It’s typically the first in depth contact a non member has with a credit union and that non member, increasingly, is seeking to open a new account online.Good luck with that.The brutal fact i...

The conversation with West Community Credit Union’s Josh Rodriguez started in Ashland OR at the CU 2.0/ Room (39) a event in late September and in this podcast it picks up again.Fodder for the show came in the form o...

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 ...