Reality Check

Onsite Coverage: Retired CEO Says Identify One Thing and Do Your 'EST

By Sarah Snell Cooke | April 10, 2013

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – There are a lot of things Ed Speed does not like: collaboration, social media and e-commerce for starters.
Younger, Profitable Members Driving Mobile Growth

By Robert McGarvey | March 19, 2012

Speaking recently at the New Jersey Credit Union League’s Reality Check conference, John Lass put it bluntly on the direction of mobile banking.
Are CUs Behind the Tech Evolutionary 8 Ball?

By Sarah Snell Cooke | March 4, 2012

The dinosaurs didn’t have the brains or the tools to see it coming, but credit unions do. Fiserv’s Mark Sievewright discussed ISIS among other threats to credit unions last week at the New Jersey Credit Union Leagues’ Reality Check.
Reality Check: Time to Wake and Smell the Digital

By Robert McGarvey | March 4, 2012

The message Fiserv executive Mark Sievewright delivered last week at the New Jersey Credit Union League's annual Reality Check Conference in Atlantic City, N.J., was loud and succinct: We are hip-deep in the digital era and, ready or not, the bits and bytes are rising fast. There is no real...
Reality Check: Cheney Outlines Industry Challenges

By Robert McGarvey | March 4, 2012

The New Jersey Credit Union League's Reality Check Conference last week in Atlantic City, N.J., gave attendees a fast overview of what's hot and what's not in Washington, compliments of lunch speaker Bill Cheney, CEO of CUNA.
On-Site Coverage: A Big ‘No’ on Tier 1 Corporate Mergers Heard at Reality Check

By Robert McGarvey | March 22, 2011

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – This was the end of ambiguity regarding NCUA’s opposition to a possible merger of Tier 1 corporate credit unions. At the New Jersey Credit Union Reality Check conference NCUA Scott Hunt, director of the office of corporate credit unions, said on a panel about the future...
On-Site Coverage: Credit Union Reality Check 2: Hunting Noninterest Income

By Robert McGarvey | March 22, 2011

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Where can credit unions find new revenue streams? Bob Larson of CUNA told attendees at the “Reality Check” conference to accept the importance of noninterest income.
On-Site Coverage: Credit Union Reality Check

By Robert McGarvey | March 22, 2011

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Do not expect an easy fix for the US economy, said Mike Schenk, vice president of economics at CUNA, at the “Credit Union Reality Check” conference in Atlantic City.