CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 211 Chris Doner CEO Access Softek on Why You Need a Robo-Advisor
A machine just maybe can pick stocks better than a human – and just maybe credit unions can augment their investment services by offering a new Robo-advisor service from longtime fintech Access Softek, a 36-year-old Berkeley CA-based fintech that offers online and mobile banking and more to hundreds of FIs.
Nuance in the Credit Union Industry
At CU 2.0, we look at a lot of different fintechs. It’s our “thing,” so to speak. Often, this means that we’re looking at organizations that aren’t household names—startups, bespoke solutions, newer CUSOs, and companies that are testing the credit union waters.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 210 Abrar Ahmed on id-go to Prevent Account Takeover Attacks
There has to be a better way. A safer way. There has to be a way to swiftly let a member re-set a password to gain entry to his/her accounts and to also defeat the account take-over criminals who specialize in seizing control of others’ accounts and swiftly draining them.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 209 Landon Glenn, CEO of ASA, the New way for CUs and Fintechs to Connect
You are going to want to listen to this podcast twice. That’s because the first time you hear it you will think, this can’t be so. It can’t be that easy for a credit union to connect with fintechs and have all the compliance and integration and all that complex and expensive stuff just, well, […]
Money Talks with Kirk Kordeleski Episode 2: Executive Comp As a Strategic Initiative
Here’s the big, immense, mind blowing idea that is central to this podcast: a competitive credit union has to view executive compensation as a strategic initiative, really no different from putting investment money into a CUSO or rolling out a spiffy new mobile banking app.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 208 Steve Bone Ongoing Operations on OGO’s Future
Steve Bone, a longtime fintech executive, has been given the big chair at Ongoing Operations – aka OGO – and now he is running the CUSO’s efforts in providing credit unions with Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery, Information Security and more.
3 Tips for Branch Managers in the Digital Age
As Internet banking began to pick up steam in the late 90s, lots of people predicted that brick-and-mortar credit union branches would eventually fade away. Of course, they were wrong. As the market matured, it became clear that branches still had a place in the financial landscape. There are just some things that members either […]
Money Talks with Kirk Kordeleski Episode 1 “What’s In Your Pay Packet?”
Are you earning enough at a credit union? Here’s the bad news: it’s not easy to figure out the right answer to that question. Information about executive pay at credit unions is not easy to come by.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 207 Michele Dean on Thinking Big on Long Island
Meet Michele Dean, CEO of Suffolk Federal Credit Union on Long Island in New York and that is a $1.5 billion institution.
All Aboard the Fintech Service Bus: Accelerating Digital Transformation
This piece is based off of a roundtable discussion at the CU 2.0 Brainstorm Event in January 2022. It’s not intended to be comprehensive—rather, it will provide a quick look at emerging trends in fintech service bus strategies for credit unions. Several Brainstorm Event panelists suggested that credit unions are now technology providers. If that’s […]