The list of items deserving of a comment or two keeps getting longer. To whittle it down a bit, here are a few of them: Although I have been preaching in this space for a long time that credit unions need to play more offense and not just defense, there...

Every time credit unions come up with something that will benefit their members, such as NCUA's new field of membership regulations, the banking lobbyists think it is their God-given right to immediately spout off with their take on why any such move is bad for humanity. What's almost worse is...

Each year when making predictions for the next 12 months, I usually include one that predicts the demise of a couple of league CEOs. Frankly, this is always a slam dunk prediction because not a year goes by when one or more league executives don't bite the dust. Managing a...

Those organizations that stick to their knitting, we have been told by many renowned management gurus, have the best chance of being successful. We heartily agree. At Credit Union Times our entire focus is on putting out the best weekly credit union publication we can. That's it. Nothing more. Publishing...

Credit union boards differ from credit union to credit union, yet, when it comes to individual board members, they also have many similarities. They are different because many CU boards reflect the culture of the original sponsor(s) and the initial membership group and also the style and personality of their...

Consumers have been bouncing checks as long as there have been personal checking accounts. And just as long, they have been aware that besides the financial sting of costly, multiple, punitive fees imposed for such bad behavior, being the instigator of a NSF (non-sufficient funds) check carries with it a...

As if credit unions don't have enough on their hands fighting off accelerated banker-led attacks at all levels that challenge the long standing credit union tax-exemption, along comes IRS' UBIT bubbling to the surface affecting state-chartered credit unions in at least three states (so far). A reported 20 credit unions...

The controversy over whether all credit unions should be required to have federal insurance for their primary coverage, as advocated by first the NAFCU Board, and later the Consumer Federation of America Board, has apparently hit a very sensitive nerve. Only a couple of weeks after the two national groups...