This show started out as an exploration of Jack Henry’s 7th annual Strategy Benchmark Survey where CEOs of credit unions and banks reveal wh...

Peter Duffy’s message is plain: The pace of mergers will get fatter and it will involve credit unions of all sizes, from the small to the mega institutions. First Tech and DCU may seem an outlier but now there is ENT and Wings and the pace w...

This show is a proof to me that my insistence on doing podcasts without written questions in hand or a script is the right way.I agreed to this show - a talk with

Welcome to CU 2.0 Podcast Greatest Hits #26 and on the podcast is Kirk Kordeleski, onetime CEO at Bethpage Federal Credit Union, and one of the industry’s most perceptive thinkers. In this show - from November 2022 -- Kord...

Credit unions, most of them, want more small business loans on their books but few credit unions know how to speedily and profitably process small business loan applications and consequently most are lagging when it comes to booking business...

On the show today is Peter Rice, CEO of Hanscom Federal Credit Union, a  $1.9 billion institution headquartered in Boston that took flight ...

Welcome to the cU 2.0 Podcast Greatest Hits #25.  This show dates back to August 2021 and it aired as episode 162. The guest: Peter Rice, now CEO of Hanscom Federal Credit Union, and then he was Chief Banking Officer at Workers Credit U...

I’d expected this to be an AI free show but, let’s face it, that just isn’t likely in 2025 but the good news is that in the show

Quick now, what is NACUSO?Of course that’s the National Association of Credit Union Service Organizations  - and CUSOs just may be the credit union secret powe...

Hopeful.Determined.In a conversation with Renee Sattiewhite, the CEO of the ...

On today’s show, Mac Thompson, ceo  and founder of White Clay - a company focused on helping financial institution use data to build better, more profitable m...

What’s next for WOCCU?Is there a next?The trigger for the question is a

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