CU 2.0 Podcast 35: Gen Z Talks Up About Credit Unions
Welcome to episode 35 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about Gen Z and their thoughts on credit unions. Do you want the good news first or the bad? In this podcast, we bring together three Gen Z -ers to tell the good, the bad, and the ugly about credit unions.
CU 2.0 Podcast 34: Ben Premo TrueFees on Fee Transparency
Welcome to episode 34 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Quick now, how much did financial institutions collect in overdraft fees in 2017? The answer is $34.3 billion. That’s right, billion. A lot of us are getting soaked by high bank fees and thus TrueFees, founded by Ben Premo whose intent is to shine a light on […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 33: Erin Coleman Filene on Thinking Big and Better
Welcome to episode 33 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. How long does it take your credit union to respond to a mortgage application with a verdict? Anything longer than 10 minutes just may be too long. Are you still in the game? At Filene, Erin Coleman, senior impact director, mulls just that kind of question […]
Credit Union 2.0 Podcast 32: Mike Edwards WOCCU on International Trends
Welcome to episode 32 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Quick now, what country has the highest participation in credit unions? Say the US and you are wrong. According to Mike Edwards, senior vice president for advocacy at the World Council of Credit Unions, it’s Ireland, north, and south, where 70% belong. In this podcast, he […]
Credit Union 2.0 Podcast 31: Mike Reuter Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions
Welcome to episode 31 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. From Ukraine to Ireland and Dominica, this podcast travels the globe with Mike Reuter, executive director of the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions, as he shares stories of the challenges faced by credit unions and also the generous willingness of other credit unions executives to help. […]
Credit Union 2.0 Podcast 30: Brett King on Banking Tomorrow
Welcome to episode 30 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. You don’t want to listen to this podcast. But you need to. What banking futurist Brett King paints is a dystopian picture of financial services tomorrow where, increasingly, consumers want frictionless money transactions, they don’t give a hoot about banks vs. non-banks, and they have no […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 29: Teresa Freeborn on Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union
Welcome to episode 29 of the Credit Union 2.0 Podcast. $100 million. That’s the projected three-year budget for the CUNA “Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union” campaign. Teresa Freeborn, CEO of Xceed Financial Credit Union, chairs the CUNA effort which she – make no mistake – sees as crucial in the long-term survival and prosperity of credit […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 28: Patrick Conway PCUA on Lobbying and Much More
Welcome to episode 28 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Consider this podcast a crash course on credit union lobbying, 2019 style. Our instructor: Patrick Conway, CEO of the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association, a very large league with upwards of 370 members. PCUA lobbies both in Harrisburg, the state capital and in Washington, DC. A lot […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 27: Hakan Nordfjell Gemalto on New Account Fraud
Welcome to episode 27 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. You want to make new account opening easy and fraudsters want to exploit that loophole to rob your credit union. That is the gist of today’s podcast with Hakan Nordfjell, head of digital banking at Gemalto. He tells about fraudster tricks and also the way financial […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 26: Carl Memnon, COO Grain Technology on an End to Overdraft Fees
Welcome to episode 26 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Just say no more to overdraft fees. And make this decision good for your members and also good for your credit union. You may even grab a few customers away from Chase and the other money center banks. That’s the promise of fintech startup Grain Technology. In this […]