MRDC 2.0 And Your Credit Union 

By Robert McGarvey   For CU2.0   A new report from RemoteDepositCapture.com makes plain that mRDC now is a must for credit unions.  Declared the report: “mRDC is no longer a competitive differentiator, but instead a ‘must-have’ offering Financial Institutions need simply to remain competitive.”  Without mRDC you just may not be competitive. That’s a stinging reality.  This claim, incidentally, is underscored by a […]

Wrestling with Your Digital Talent Gap

By Robert McGarvey For CU 2.0   Wake up to a frightening reality: very probably your credit union is falling behind in the race for digital talent and that just may be a sound of impending doom. Consulting firm CapGemini, working with LinkedIn, recently issued a report on The Digital Talent Gap and the takeaways […]

Rating the Mobile Banking Apps: How Do Credit Unions Fare? 

By Robert McGarvey  For Credit Union 2.0     The good news for credit unions in this year’s MagnifyMoney survey of mobile banking apps: Many do very, very well, even against money center bank competition.  The bad news: Mobile banking apps, suggests MagnifyMoney, “have reached middle age.” That means, per MagnifyMoney, “overall, apps haven’t appreciably improved.” They have entered an […]

Why MRDC Hasn’t Fulfilled Its Promise 

By Robert McGarvey  For Credit Union 2.0   A new research report from Javelin on “Why Digital Banking Often Fails to Reduce Offline Volume” has an infographic that just popped my eyes. The subject: “Reasons Why Consumers Avoid Mobile Banking and Turn to the Branch or ATM for Check Deposits.”  Javelin offers answers but, first, why do […]

What’s Not In Your Members’ Mobile Wallets

By Robert McGarvey for Credit Union 2.0 Two stats jump out of a PSCU and Javelin report entitled “The Credit Union Guide to Opportunities in IoT, Biometrics and E-commerce.”  Credit union members love their smartphones -80.9% own one. That’s roughly comparable to big bank customers – 88.4% of them own a smartphone.  Where credit union members falter however […]