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• Post-Hearing Risk-Based Capital, Business Lending Bills Expected

  By Heather Anderson  |  April 17, 2013

  Three credit union witnesses testified April 10 in a House Financial Services Committee Financial Institutions Subcommittee hearing that rules and regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act are interfering with credit unions’ ability to serve their members. 

• THINK Strategies: Seven Ways to Improve

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  June 4, 2012

  The recent THINK Conference staged by CO-OP Financial Services in Florida included a wide range of opinions and approaches about how to do better in business. In this case, the business is credit unions. Here is a roundup of some of those speakers and an encapsulation of the ideas they presented.

• Card Portfolio Back Into the Eli Lilly FCU Fold

  By David Morrison  |  May 29, 2012

  The lists of credit unions that had previously sold their card portfolios to banks only to come back into issuing again grew last week as the 60,000-member $1 billion Eli Lilly Federal Credit Union converted a card portfolio that it had previously sold to a bank back to its own...

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  7 Strategic Steps for Credit Union Leaders

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  May 16, 2012

  From keeping an open mind to the nontraditional to cooperating to branding, here are a few things to get you THINKing.

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  7 Strategic Steps for Credit Union Leaders

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  May 15, 2012

  From keeping an open mind to the nontraditional to cooperating to branding, here are a few things to get you THINKing.

• Survival Means THINKing Outside the CU Box: Editor's Column

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  May 7, 2012

  I was really impressed with THINK the first time I went a couple of years ago, but when Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Tim Sanders, formerly of Yahoo!, spoke about their businesses and philosophies, I wondered whether credit union attendees would connect the dots. How many would bring ideas back...

• Survival Means THINKing Outside the CU Box

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  May 4, 2012

  THINK is the best credit union–yet not credit union–conference.

• Durbin Reg Costs Big Banks More Than $8 Billion

  By David Morrison  |  May 3, 2012

  Big banks lost big bucks on interchange since Durbin. Smaller banks experienced a slight decline while credit unions held steady.

• Going Beyond Checks with Signature Verification

  By Greg Council  |  April 26, 2012

  Unintended consequences of adopting new technologies can be avoided.

• Business Lending at Banks Remains Flat, Texas League Says

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  April 2, 2012

  League says credit unions approve far more of their loan requests from small businesses.