If you're a vendor seeking a contract with FirstFinancial Federal Credit Union of Maryland, be ready to make anattractive–really attractive–offer.

President/CEO Rob Windsor watches expenses carefully, andnegotiates aggressively to keep an operating expense ratio of 1.4%,about half of what many peer credit unions have achieved.

“We're very good at that,” Windsor declared. “We look at everycontract we sign and we negotiate everything. We try to keep a lotof things in-house to keep expenses down. One thing that causes usto have very effective use of our employees is what we call ourcashless system.”

Continue Reading for Free

Register and gain access to:

  • Breaking credit union news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts.
  • Weekly Shared Accounts podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders.
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders.
  • Critical coverage of the commercial real estate and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, GlobeSt.com and ThinkAdvisor.com.
NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.