CU 2.0 Podcast Shane Butcher on Remote Workers, Credit Unions, and Coronavirus Part 2
Shane Butcher is a security guru at CUSO Ongoing Operations and lately has been busy helping numerous credit unions safely transition their employees to working from home. The good news: credit unions that approach this methodically, carefully will probably be able to mitigate risks. The bad news: credit unions that rush into this, haphazardly, with inadequate employee […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Kevin Langford on Remote Workers and Cyber Insecurities in the Age of Coronavirus
Suddenly credit unions across the nation are ordering employees home, as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic. And that is triggering a tidal wave of worries about the possible cyber insecurities that will result as newly empowered employees log into the credit union networks. Hitherto, at many credit unions, the workers who had […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 78 Paul Stull on Cannabis and Credit Unions, Up in Smoke 3
Toke up – the CU2.0 Podcast is back with another look at cannabis and credit unions, a topic we last looked at a year ago in a two part podcast. Part 1 here, Part 2 here. Welcome to Part 3, 2020 edition of Up in Smoke, credit union style. Today’s guest is Paul Stull CEO […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 77 Shondell Varcianna on the Content You Need to Grow
Want to grow your member base? Want to target particular kinds of members? Content is your friend, says Shondell Varcianna, a financial services veteran who nowadays focuses on providing select financial institutions with finely targeted digital content – blog posts – for distribution via the credit union website, also social media. Her driving point: content […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 76 Matt Johnner BankLabs on Commercial Lending
It just may be topic one in credit union c suites – how do we make more profitable loans? Matt Johnner of BankLabs – a developer of cloud based technology solutions for financial institutions – has a suggestion: Go after lending to two of the country’s biggest industrial segments, agriculture and construction. And fast track […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 75 Milind Borkar Illuma Labs
Passwords are broken. You know that. But do you know call centers are heading that way? Call centers are under attack by criminals. Smart criminals. And they are targeting credit unions. Credit unions are responding by asking more members ever harder questions. Just one problem. As the questions get more obscure – what was the […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 65 John Weinkowitz on Credit Unions Buying Banks, Live from Finastra Community Markets
Credit unions are buying so many banks the Wall Street Journal refers to this as a “spree.” Just in the first eight months of 2018 there were 21 transactions, compared to 12 in the prior five years, by the WSJ count. What is going on here? We put that question to John Weinkowitz, Head of Product Strategy, […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 64 Carla Bienz Partners 1st CU, Live from Finastra Community Markets
Can small credit unions survive? Carla Bienz is CEO of Partners 1st Credit Union in Fort Wayne IN – an institution where she has worked since she graduated from college and where she now is CEO. And she has keen insights into the plight of smaller credit unions and what they need to do to […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 63 Steve Hoke on Data and Mortgages, Live from Finastra Community Markets
There was a time when community financial institutions owned the home mortgage market. No more. Fintechs dominate and mega banks aren’t far behind. Most credit unions are left to squabble over crumbs. But just maybe there’s hope. At Finastra, Steve Hoke, Vice President, Product Management, Consumer and SME Lending, says the company’s Fusion Motgagebot Data Insights puts […]
OK Google: What Do You Want with Credit Unions?
Much ado has been made about “the growing fintech threat” in the credit union space. Well, most of that has blown over at this point. It’s pretty clear that most fintechs out there don’t want to be financial institutions. They just want to help out. There are exceptions to this general rule, of course. Some […]