Judging by a recent interactive poll on the Credit Union Times Web site, it seems clear that if there are any problems regarding under funding (or no funding) of a pension plan for credit union CEOs, that both the CEO and the board of directors should share the blame. To...

Florida residents are still reeling from the recent onslaught of four consecutive, massive, destructive, hurricanes that hit the Sunshine State dead on. It will take years and billions of dollars before any semblance of normality can be restored. Although the Credit Union Times all-glass headquarters building in West Palm Beach...

Listening to credit union leaders, viewing some credit union marketing materials, and reading CU publications like Credit Union Times, it would be a safe bet to assume that everyone connected with credit unions has a strong and unwavering dislike for banks. And vice versa. Not true. For the most part,...

Alot of credit union information flows in and out of Credit Union Times every day. Some of it brings some interesting questions to mind. Like these: When the credit union idea has such tremendous potential for helping less fortunate people around the world, why does the official International Credit Union...

Over the past several years, very quietly, a new breed of credit union CEOs have come on the scene. They are running many of the industry's largest, most innovative, most highly ranked, and most successful credit unions. They made them that way. In no small part they are also responsible...

More and more credit unions are beefing up their annual marketing budgets and employing full-time marketing professionals. These credit union marketers are doing some exciting things for their credit unions. For any Doubting Thomas, just check out the pages of recent issues of Credit Union Times. Not only is more...

Contests seem to be all the rage these days. Why even the banking industry has taken to awarding prizes as part of their ongoing anti-credit union campaign. Banking industry rewards are given for something as simple as writing a letter to lawmakers blasting CURIA, to catching credit unions in the...

Taking a look at a couple of recent developments involving credit unions from the "no spin zone" perspective made popular by cable TV and radio news analyst and best selling author Bill O'Reilly could prove to be interesting. For example, when it was first reported that a credit union marketing...