Credit Union Management

As citizen frustration continues as demonstrated by the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, credit unions may be presented with another chance to show how they can help middle-class Americans meet their financial needs.

If the roughly 73,000 members of Technology Credit Union, a $1.5 billion institution headquartered in San Jose, Calif., vote to convert to a mutual bank charter, they will likely find their increased expenses not restricted to taxes alone, according to CUNA Chief Economist Bill Hampel.

Branding goes well beyond the colors in your logo or glossy brochures. Branding is everything, from your website to the employees in your branch. Branding must be part of overall strategic planning and then that plan must be clearly communicated and reinforced to all employees every day.

If nothings wrong, there should be nothing to hide, CEO Jim Blaine said of his credit unions decision to publicize its CAMEL score.

According to Devin Selte, a senior relationship manager at Servus Credit Union, any strategic moves regarding the future of credit unions would be incomplete without plans to invest in the next generation of leaders.

Financial education continued to provide the predominant theme underpinning the National Credit Union Foundation's most recent round of grant making, with the NCUF continuing to fund projects that it believes strike at an enduring financial problem effecting a broad swath of American consumers.