Credit Unions Build Personal Lending Relationships

Business lending is one of the fastest areas of growth for credit unions, but veterans of the sector say that the key to success is focusing on the broad needs of members, not just building a bigger loan portfolio. Much of the growth in business lending has occurred...

Smart Card Alliance Changes Name, Expands Security View

Princeton Junction, N.J.-based Smart Card Alliance announced it is changing to the Secure Technology Alliance and expanding its charter to include a broader range of security and privacy-enhancing technologies. “The Alliance’s focus has always been on...

Millennials: Financial Thinking

How do credit unions engage with millennials as potential members? That is the $64,000 question. As we know, our membership is the generation that precedes the millennials (age range 18 to 30), which has a different outlook. From the traditionalists born between 1900...

Doubling Down on Criticism of CFPB

Back in October, Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, wrote a 101-page majority ruling assailing the “massive, unchecked” power of the single director-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “Indeed, other...