The Difficult Marriage Between Fintechs and CUSOs

CUSOs are innovation platforms for credit unions, allowing credit union owners to share risk and expenses when building better and sometimes revolutionary systems, products or channels to serve their members. Fintech firms are the very essence of innovation and...

NYCUA-SimplyCredit Partnership Combats Online Disruption

A new strategic partnership between the New York Credit Union Association and the San Francisco-based fintech company SimplyCredit aims to help New York’s credit unions combat online disruption and accelerate lending growth. Through the partnership, SimplyCredit...

Credit Unions Gain Record Share of Plastic

Credit unions in February held their largest share of the nation’s credit card debt ever as the nation’s credit debt remained near record levels, according to the Federal Reserve’s monthly Consumer Credit report released Friday. Credit unions held...

Increasing Auto Lending Fraud Risk Remains Hidden

Auto lending fraud has been rising for several years, but it remains hidden in credit losses, according to new research by a San Diego, Calif-based technology firm. After 2016 auto lending originations soared to historic high levels, the downstream effects are now...