CU2.0 Podcast Episode 113 Sherif Hassan on The Opportunity in Small Business Lending
PPP loans just may have awakened credit unions to the immense opportunity there is in small business lending. That’s what Sherif Hassan, CEO of fintech Capiform, believes. The opportunity is there.
CU2.0 Podcast Episode 112 Steve Bruyn on the Huge Opportunity For Credit Unions to Win Bank Customers Today
You remember Bank Transfer day, that 2011 movement that brought in perhaps one million new credit union members, possibly more. Something a lot bigger may be about to happen. That’s the opinion of Steve Bruyn, CEO of Foresight Research who, writing in The Financial Brand, said that its extensive polling had found nearly a doubling of the number of […]
CU2.0 Podcast Episode 111 The Omnichannel Voyage, Part 2 with Mark Schuiling of Wildfire Credit Union
No more cookie cutter solutions. And put a branch in the member’s hands with mobile tools that allow the member to do pretty much anything he/she could do in a branch. When Wildfire, a $900 million credit union in Saginaw Michigan, set out on its omnichannel journey four or five years ago it dreamed big, […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 110 The Omnichannel Voyage, Part 1 with Vince Bezemer of Backbase
For how many years have you heard about omnichannel banking – and you also know not many institutions have done this more than pay lip service to an idea of the digital first financial institution.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 109 Paul Ablack on Fintechs, Big Data, and New Opportunities in Commercial Lending
Paul Ablack knows big data and fintechs. He served as CEO at OnApproach, a big data company aimed at credit unions that was acquired by Trellance.
Up in Smoke: Cannabis, Credit Unions, and You
A question is getting asked these days that you probably never thought would be on the minds of credit union executives: should we get involved in cannabis banking?
Low-Income Credit Unions: Scam or No Scam
The NCUA lit this bonfire when in early May it tweaked the criteria for a credit union to win designation as a low-income credit union. That matters because an LICU gains significant flexibility in how it can do business, notably it can accept deposits from any source and gain exemption from aggregate loan limits on […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 92 Sahil Pankhaniya, A Start Up Credit Union at George Washington University
What will blow your mind as you listen to this podcast is how savvy and smart the guest is. That’s Sahil Pankhaniya, a 20 year old student at George Washington University in Washington DC who is pursuing the launch of a wholly new, student run credit union credit union at the Washington DC institution. How […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 91 Sherif Hassan Capiform on Smarter Lending Now
How could we build a lending tool that anybody could use? That is the driving thought that led Sherif Hassan to form fintech Capiform and the timing could not be better. That’s because, with the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing recession, suddenly credit unions are awash with savings deposits (as investors flee equity markets) and they also […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 83 Ron Shevlin, Again, on How to Win in Financial Services
Who will win: community banks or credit unions? War on. A keen observer is Ron Shevlin, diretor of research at Cornerstone Advisors and author of a new report, What’s Going on in Banking 2020. It’s a data rich report. Download it, read it. Shevlin was an early guest on the CU2.0 Podcast – Episode 21 […]