CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 152 Bill Clark CEO TimeTrade SilverCloud on Digital First Banking Trends

You know the headline – in fact you could write the story on the explosion in digital banking transactions during the last pandemic year.
Small Business Lending 2.0 Guide

Credit unions have stepped up for small businesses during the pandemic. They should continue the trend.
Finopotamus and Fintech News for Credit Unions

The only people who say that credit unions don’t need to evolve are credit union employees.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 151 Michelle Asher ENT on Social Media Mastery

Consider this podcast everything you wanted to know about credit unions and their social media channels but were afraid to ask. Or maybe you just didn’t know to ask.
What to Look for in Banking and Finance AI

This is an excerpt from FinAncIal: Helping Financial Executives Prepare for an Artificial World. Grab your copy here! In the previous chapter, I showed various uses of AI in modern products and services. I hope that gives you an idea about what AI has been used for in other industries. More importantly, I hope that […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 150 Vince Bezemer on Self-Directed Banking

File this under trends that will rock the ground beneath your feet. The next wave in financial services will be self-direction, says Vince Bezemer, head of strategy at Backbase, whom you know from CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 110 (and the companion, 111, with Wildfire Credit Union, a Backbase customer).
The CU 2.0 Fintech Mastermind Introduces the Brainstorm Event

The CU 2.0 Fintech Mastermind is a group of nearly 100 credit union and fintech leaders. They meet in small groups each month to tackle the financial industry’s biggest challenges.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 149 Samira Rajan Brooklyn Cooperative Credit Union and Economic Inequality

It was the members’ personal stories that hooked Samira Rajan early in her employment at what then was known as the Bushwick Cooperative and now is the Brooklyn Cooperative. When she started there it was in 2001 as a volunteer via AmeriCorp Vista the recently founded credit union had assets of $299,000, four employees (including […]
Credit Union Social Media: Ads vs Content

For several years now, most credit unions have used social media to bring in new members and engage existing ones. However, changes to business accounts and advertising have affected their social media reach. So, we’d like to look at social media and content marketing for credit unions. How does the changing social media landscape affect […]
Credit Unions, Cryptocurrency, and Card Rewards

Most financial institutions have been slow on the uptake when it comes to cryptocurrency. It’s still a relatively new technology and represents a definite risk. But there might also be risk in steering clear much longer.