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).
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 […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 148 Cathi Kim on Capitalizing Your Small Credit Union
Cathi Kim’s job title at Inclusiv, a trade association for community development credit unions, tells you why you need to listen to her. She’s Director of Inclusiv/Capital which means her focus is on finding ways for community development credit unions, often very small, to bring in new capital, which can come from a range of […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 147 Luis Pastor Latino Community Credit Union
Latino Community Credit Union was founded in 2000 in Durham NC when the community was rocked by a wave of robberies – even murders – of Latino workers who were paid in cash and were believed to walk around with their pockets stuffed with cash because they were unbanked.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 145 Robert Siciliano on Ransomware and Who Do You Trust?
PSCU called it a growing credit union threat. CUNA Mutual called it one of the fastest growing malware threats. Security company Arctic Wolf has said there was a 520% increase in ransomware and phishing attacks in the banking sector between March and June 2020. NCUA has even issued a punchlist of steps to take to protect against ransomware attacks.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 144, Randy Icelow Rolling F Credit Union, From a Temp Gig to CEO
At 29, Randy Icelow said he was a temp worker for a bus company in California’s Central Valley and flashforward to now he is 38 and CEO of a $63 million credit union, Rolling F based in Turlock CA, where its SEG is Foster Farms, one of the biggest chicken companies in the country.
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 143 Stephanie Smith America’s Credit Union Museum
The building still stands at 420 Notre Dame Avenue in Manchester NH. That’s where the nation’s first credit union – St. Mary’s Bank – opened its doors in 1908, to serve founding French American mill workers (and, yes, much of the original paperwork was written in French).
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 142 John Herrera The Immigrant Banking Journey
Before logging into this call, I studied up on who John Herrera is. He was born in Costa Rica, then came to the US to go to college at the University of Delaware and one thing led to another and instead of going back to Costa Rica to build a better society he stayed in […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 146 Fintech Meetup with Anil Aggarwal and Kirk Drake
Anil Aggarwal is an entrepreneur who knows a thing or two about providing venues where executives come together and good things happen. He was co-founder of Money 20/20, an event that redefined how financial services executives and fintech executives could profitably come together. After that venture was sold, he co-founded Shoptalk, a meeting venue for retail execs […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 141: Teresa Freeborn CUNA’s “Open Your Eyes” – a Return Conversation
CUNA is still at its “Open Your Eyes” to a credit union campaign and Teresa Freeborn is still heading the effort. Regular listeners will remember Freeborn from her podcast two years ago, episode 29, and when she asked for a return we gladly said yes.