You resent them a little, dont you? Those big banks with their huge marketing budgets and well-known brands. Their glossy brochures and those dazzling websites. Your credit union has great ideas, too, but with such a limited budget, its impossible to accomplish.

I recently had lunch with a respected business contact and friend. During our conversation about 2012 successes and direction for 2013, we got on the topic of goals.

Service One Credit Union announced the retirement of its longtime President/CEO Valerie C. Brown after 34 years of service.

For more than a generation, plastic cards have been the de facto on-ramp to the payments highway. With the widespread adoption of smartphones and other mobile devices, how will the use of plastic cards change?

First Catholic Federal Credit Union and Michigan Catholic Credit Union recently gained regulatory approval to merge. The merged credit unions will assume the new name of Alliance Catholic Credit Union.

Credit unions that adopt tablet-specific apps for their members are catering to a growing market.

Lifelong credit union leader and New York Credit Union Hall of Fame member Nino Montani passed away Nov. 17 at the age of 90. A Niagara Falls resident, Montani had been a credit unionist since 1952, when he helped initiate the process that led to the founding of Hooker Employees...

The large and growing need for affordable remittance transfer services represents an equally large business opportunity for credit unions. This is especially true for those U.S. cooperatives serving Hispanic members with family in Latin America.