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 […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 82 Jon Ogden MX on the Future of Banking
Does your credit union have a future? There’s the blunt question. Welcome to the CU2.0 Podcast with your host Robert McGarvey. Today’s guest Jon Ogden, head of strategic content at digital firm MX which has recently released two provocative reports, The Ultimate Guide to the Future of Banking and the Ultimate Guide to Digital Transformation. Read them, they […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 81 Keith Leggett and Bank-Credit Union Mergers
When a credit union buys a community bank is that dancing with the devil? Welcome to the CU2.0 podcast with your host Robert McGarvey. Today’s guest Keith Leggett, now retired Chief Economist with the American Bankers Association who still actively writes his blog, Credit Union Watch. The topic of the talk: bank – credit union mergers. […]
CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 80 Scott Petry Authentic8 on the Tower of Babel in Many FIs
They just don’t talk well together. That’s the surprising conclusion in a report entitled “Surprising Disconnect Over Compliance and Secure Web Use at Financial Firms,” research sponsored by IT security company Authentic8. (Download the report here.) Inside many banks and credit unions IT, compliance, and legal just don’t talk the same language and often do not […]
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 […]