2021 Brings New Financial Inclusion Opportunities To Credit Unions
2020 was a tumultuous year for credit unions and their members, but 2021 is rich with possibility for new financial inclusion opportunities.
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Borrowing: Taking Those First Steps Towards Financial Wellness
We have plans for ourselves when we’re playing the game of life. We have all the hopes and dreams in the world to make it to the financial and spiritual peak of our respective mountains. The reality is sometimes the path getting there is hardly the shiny yellow-brick road we anticipated. Our contemporary reality is […]
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How To Successfully Work From Home and Homeschool
Working from home and homeschooling and presenting new challenges for all of us; read tried and true tips to be more successful in this article!
Read More CX, FinTech, and FinLit: Credit Union Trends To Look For In 2020
There were some cliffhangers to end 2019 going into 2020 in the small dollar loan industry. From credit unions’ slow-but-steady cloud adoption strategies, fintech, and marketing automation. And who can forget the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s pending decision to rescind its own underwriting “ability-to-repay” requirement. Like any forward-thinking credit union leader or executive, you have […]
Read More White Paper Preview: Helping Credit Unions Provide “Financial Wellness for Today” and Beyond
It is a tall order for the poor or underbanked to participate in the mainstream banking system today. So many individuals are hesitant to engage when they’re convinced they’re unable to out-maneuver the overdraft penalties and banking fees they know are on their way. Concerns like those are why the poor and under-engaged fail to […]
Read More NCUA Steps Up for Consumers, Upgrades Limits on Credit Unions’ Small Dollar Loan (PAL II) Rules
What a drama it’s been for small dollar lending these last 40 years. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, a series of federal law developments resulting in banking deregulation gave rise to the predatory payday lending storefronts of the early 1990s through this 21st century. Predatory lending certainly took advantage in the early ‘90s […]
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