Center for Financial Services Innovation

• Credit Unions Well Represented as Service Innovators

  By David Morrison  |  May 8, 2013

  Five of the eight winners of the Center for Financial Services Innovation second round of Financial Capability Innovation Fund awards are either offshoots of credit unions, have credit unions partners or have a history of working with credit unions.

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  Five Essential Facts About The Financially Underserved

  By David Morrison  |  February 20, 2013

  In order to succeed in the 21st century, credit unions cannot afford to not serve the enormous and growing population of financially underserved consumers in the U.S., according to Greg Rable, CEO of FactorTrust, an aggregator of data on those consumers.

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  5 Essential Facts About the Financially Underserved

  By David Morrison  |  February 19, 2013

  In order to succeed in the 21st century, credit unions cannot afford to not serve the enormous and growing population of financially underserved consumer.

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  CFSI Study Sees CU Opportunities in the Underserved

  By David Morrison  |  November 21, 2012

  A new report from the Center for Financial Services Innovation suggests that products and services marketed to unbanked and underbanked consumers could represent a huge and growing market for the nation’s credit unions.

• Financial Services to Unbanked Reflect Potentially Huge, Report Suggests

  By David Morrison  |  November 7, 2012

  Subprime credit cards, payday loans over the Internet among market-leading products.

• NCUF, CFSI Pair Up to Find Big Ideas

  By David Morrison  |  October 14, 2012

  The National Credit Union Foundation has teamed up with one of the largest financial think tanks in the country, the Center for Financial Services Innovation, to find a big idea to fund this year.

• NCUF Pairing Up For Big Ideas in Financial Services Innovation

  By David Morrison  |  October 9, 2012

  National Credit Union Foundation working with Center for Financial Services Innovation to find one big idea to fund.

• CFSI Seeking Prepaid Card Standardization

  By David Morrison  |  July 21, 2011

  Center for Financial Services Innovation's recommendations include NCUSIF or FDIC insurance on prepaid cards.

• CU Industry Ringing the Bell on Wall Street This Week

  By Myriam DiGiovanni  |  April 12, 2011

  Financial Literacy Week is off to a great start and has helped build some awareness of credit unions.

• Brooklyn CU Gets Its Piggymojo On for Savings Innovation

  By David Morrison  |  March 23, 2011

  The $11 million Brooklyn Cooperative FCU has received a $300,000 grant from the Center for Financial Services Innovation to help develop the financial institution interface for a social network savings program.