Can credit unions help eradicate racism in America?Renee Sattiewhite says so in this 2020 podcast that is our greatest hit #20.But ask her if there is racism in US financial instit...

Literally a couple days before I recorded this podcast with Siva Narendra, CEO and founder of Tyfone and now Payfinia, a

AI - it’s the word on every lip in credit union land as most institutions scramble to find ways to usefully harness AI.And then there is Glia, the company known for contact center tools that are at work in many credi...

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 ca...

Open banking - two words that just may change your life and this change is coming at you, ready or not.In late October the CFPB finalized a rule that made open banking a must have for the nation’s biggest financial i...

The United States is awash in medical debt.  How much is there? Hard to say but Kaiser Family Foundation has an estimate of $220 billion and, yes, that’s billion with a b.Enter CFPB, the

What magic pill can help keep hundreds, indeed thousands of credit unions from vanishing over the next decade?Vim Anand, CEO of Member Support Services, says his CUSO ca...

What’s the credit union mission?Really?At Inclusiv CEO Cathie Mahon believes that mission is serving the underserved.That won her a place as a very early guest on the...

Bet you don’t know what the word “hapax” means.Listen to this podcast with Kevin Green, COO of Hapax

Just about every credit union wants - indeed needs - new members and that’s exactly what Union Credit focuses on by providing embedded finance tools to deliver a steady stream of...

The title I put on the podcast with Pete Crear was “A distinguished credit union life.”Indeed it is.  He was the first to win the lifetime achievement award from the African American Credit Union Coalition - and...

The bad news is that after spending maybe a few hundred dollars to acquire a new member there’s a 50-50 chance that within a year that member will go dormant, assuming he/she actually ever showed any activity in the credit union at all.<...

On one side is an army of highly skilled criminals, all now equipped with the latest AI tools. On the other side are credit unions and other financial institutions and, face reality, credit unions have to up their game, now, to stay competit...

What’s involved in implementing a digital member onboarding solution? Probably that's a question you’ve pondered because digital onboarding is a new must have in credit union land.But ho...

Ex nihil nihil fit.   Out of nothing nothing comes.That's a building block of Western thought - and then there is Prizeout, an innovative ad tech firm that maybe proves that nihil proposition is wrong.You've heard Prizeout ...

This show was recorded on October 1.The first guest you hear is Greg Mitchell, CEO of First Tech Federal Credit Union, and you know what had happened on September 30.Just the day before this ...

Buckle up, the ride just got a lot bumpier.The news exploded in credit union land on September 30: First Tech, the 12th l...

Talking about money. Talking about pay. At credit unions.Now do I have your attention?On the Money Talks show today is regular guest Kirk Kordeleski who has brought along

News flash: Every credit union does not have to use NCUA’s National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.Repeat: does not.

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, the now retired CEO of Truliant, a Winston Salem credit union.

The Fed just

The press release headline grabbed my attention: “SELCO Community Credit Union Awards $200,000 Grant to SquareOne Villages for the Development of the Rosa Village Co-Op in Eugene.”SELCO has been on the show

James Robert Lay is back with a new book,

Tom Shen is a fintech success story.  He was EVP at Digital Insight when Intuit bought it for truckloads of cash.  He went on to found Malauzai, a truly innovative mobile banking app.  Finastra bought it in 2018.

The show starts by asking Eric Foster, CEO of Woop Insurance, why the heck he named the company Woop, and i...