CU 2.0 Podcast 56: Ben Morales, QCash, and the Hunt for Financial Wellness
You have a successful product that puts small dollar loans in the hands of consumers who may have tattered credit but they need the money and you want to save them from predatory lenders who may charge interest upwards of 100% APR. Your product usually involves loan rates of 24 to 36% APR. Much better […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 55: Richard Crone on Libra, Live From DN Intersect
Richard Crone is a longtime payments geek and when it comes to Libra, he has a particular spin. It boils down to this: forget the talk about crypto currency. Libra fundamentally is a pre-paid account and because it is a Facebook effort, it has reach into some 2.1 billion daily users of Facebook tools (Facebook, […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 54: Douglas Hartung on Libra, Live From DN Intersect
Buckle up for big, explosive ideas. That’s what Douglas Hartung – senior director, business development & alliances at Diebold Nixdorf – specializes in and in this podcast he discusses Libra, bringing financial services to the globe’s underbanked and unbanked, and the exciting idea that just maybe all a person needs to send money anywhere on […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 53: West Community Credit Union
How does a credit union get heard in the marketing wars with Bank of America, Chase, and the other money center bruisers? Face an ugly reality: You can’t win. No way, no how. Unless you change the rules of engagement.
CU 2.0 Podcast 52: David Deckelmann LiveSurvey
Welcome to episode 52 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. What are your members thinking about you? Say you don’t know and you are setting yourself up for failure. Say you do know and, no, you haven’t asked them because you, well, just know and you are on the fast track to extinction. If you want to […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 51: Marc Schaefer Truliant
Welcome to episode 51 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Can a credit union serve more than one employer group? You know what today’s answer is of course. But to know the history you need to talk with Marc Schafer, CEO of Truliant, a Winston Salem credit union. That’s because Truliant was sued by a banker’s […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 49: Alain Glanzman WalletFi
Welcome to episode 49 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Take a guess. How many recurring payments does a typical consumer have set up, for how much money monthly? Alain Glanzman, CEO of fintech WalletFi is focused on exactly that issue – and also on the huge potential it represents for credit unions.
CU 2.0 Podcast 48: Susan Mitchell on the Credit Union Underground
Welcome to episode 48 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Circle the date, October 26. Las Vegas. That’s when Susan Mitchell, a longtime credit union consultant, is convening another meeting of the Credit Union Underground, this time in parallel with Money 20/20, probably the meeting of the best and brightest in the disruptive quadrant of financial services.
CU 2.0 Podcast 47: Randy Karnes CU*Answers for Small Credit Unions
Welcome to episode 47 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Randy Karnes just may be the poster boy for the cooperative entrepreneur. In the process, he may also have come upon the formula that will enable many hundreds – perhaps thousands – of small credit unions to thrive in the 21st century.
CU 2.0 Podcast 46: Kirk Kordeleski on Doubling Your Size and More Good News
Welcome to episode 46 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. In this podcast, Kordeleski tells why this is a time of immense, perhaps unprecedented opportunity for credit unions. Use digital and use data to allow your institution to expand in ways that a generation ago would have been unimaginable.