CU 2.0 Podcast 42: Walt Laskos, CCUA, on Credit Unions Fighting Elder Fraud
Welcome to episode 42 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about fraud for credit unions. Elder fraud is big business. The FBI calculates last year’s losses at over $700 million and involving two million seniors. That’s a lot of pain.
CU 2.0 Podcast 41: Sherri Davidoff on Cyber Insecurities and You
Welcome to episode 41 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about cybersecurity for credit unions. Put phishing emails in front of credit union employees and how many will fall for them and cough up sensitive info? 20 to 60% will get conned. And that can be costly to a credit union, both in […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 40: The Jim Blaine Marathon
Welcome to episode 40 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about the future of Credit Unions. At 30 he took over as CEO of State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) in North Carolina. That was 1979. Come 2016 and he retired. SECU had grown to $33 billion – and it had 256 branches and […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 39: Futurist Chris Skinner
Welcome to episode 39 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about the future of Credit Union digital banking. Consumers don’t want a digital bank. They want digital banking. That’s a building block belief of futurist-blogger Chris Skinner who has become a regular on the conference speaking circuit.
CU 2.0 Podcast 38: Futurist Thomas Frey on Credit Unions Tomorrow
Welcome to episode 38 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about the future of banking and Credit Unions. Will your credit union be in business in 2029? The question is not academic and it’s exactly the kind of question futurist Thomas Frey chews on. We first heard him at Co-Op’s Think ’18 (video here) […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 37: Cliff Rosenthal on CDFIs
Welcome to episode 37 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about community development financial institutions. Do you want to know about community development financial institutions? Cliff Rosenthal is the man you want to talk to. He literally wrote the book on CDFIs and also the longstanding credit union initiative to serve the unbanked: […]
CU 2.0 Podcast 36: Millennials Talk Credit Unions
Welcome to episode 36 of the CU 2.0 Podcast. Today is all about Millenials and their thoughts on credit unions. You want more Millennial members. You need them. Born between 1981 and 1996, Millennials are a prime age cohort for financial services – they are getting mortgages, buying cars, taking vacations. And yet many of […]
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 […]