For 2013, the new social media mantra has to be strategy first.

Doubt has been swirling around the potential widespread use of near field communication, or NFC, a technology that links consumers mobile phones to merchants point-of-sale terminals, enabling instant mobile payments. Apple released the iPhone 5 without an NFC chip, leaving millions of consumers out of the NFC equation.

CUNAs Governmental Affairs Conference serves as an annual rally cry for credit unions. Like a good coach, it pumps up the team, provides direction and does a little cheerleading minus the short skirts. Gathering all of the players is great for bolstering that cooperative team spirit to approach Capitol Hill...

Surrounding the chocolates, roses and love-filled greeting cards that made the rounds in Washington on Valentines Day, was an announcement from Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) re-introducing a bill that would increase the member business lending cap from 12.25% of assets to 27.5%.