Commentary

Keep an eye on these hot little numbers coming down the credit union runway this season. It could help your institution become the next top credit union.

Recommendation is that your focus not be so much about the plan, but instead about the recovery and how you can prepare for one.

Recommendation is that your focus not be so much about the plan, but instead about the recovery and how you can prepare for one.

With a long to-do list and a director in place, the folks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are off and running. Interestingly, they are off and running on a different path than traditional federal agencies.

Following the global financial crisis, directors are increasingly concerned with how to effectively navigate the new environment. Being held under greater scrutiny by the public, members and the NCUA, it has become even more important that directors demonstrate a commitment to ethical behavior and ensure transparency.

The constant challenge for a credit union is to become and stay a members primary financial institution. Marketers use PFI! as an impassioned rally cry, yet, what creates a members PFI choice is different per individual.