ARLINGTON, Texas— At a time when many financial institutions are racing to become “digital first,” Texas Trust Credit Union is making a slightly more expensive—and more deliberately old-school—bet: in a sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth market dominated by big banks, it believes the future is not digital or branch, but both.
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PITTSBURGH— At Clearview Federal Credit Union, artificial intelligence isn’t being treated as a moonshot or a marketing slogan. It’s increasingly being viewed as something more practical: the next everyday workplace tool—closer to the internet than a science experiment.
SAN FRANCISCO—After CUToday.info reported that Anthropic was withholding public release of Claude Mythos Preview because of its cyber capabilities, Reuters is now reporting the more immediate risk for financial institutions may be how the model could turn the financial industry’s own legacy technology complexity into a force multiplier for AI-powered attacks. '
PITTSFORD, N.Y.—One of the clearest warning signs that a small credit union may be drifting toward a merger often doesn’t show up in its balance sheet first—it shows up in its board minutes.
ORLANDO, Fla.— Chuck Fagan opened VeleraLIVE 2026 by making the case that Velera is moving into its next chapter with momentum, not uncertainty, telling credit union leaders the CUSO is financially strong, ahead of schedule on key integration work and investing aggressively in the technology it believes credit unions will need to stay competitive in the years ahead.
DALLAS—With threats to credit union card income piling up—from interchange fights and late-fee caps to rate pressure and shifting payment habits—Brian Scott of RAI Partners says the biggest mistake many institutions can make right now is chasing the next flashy payments technology instead of fixing the basics that actually drive portfolio performance.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—For credit unions, the most troubling takeaway from the ACSI Finance Study 2026 may not be that banks beat them again on customer satisfaction—it’s that what once looked like a temporary reversal is now starting to look like a long-term structural shift.
MILWAUKEE—More than eight in 10 young Americans now name one of the nation’s largest banks as their primary financial institution—and fewer say a credit union is their main provider than say the same about fintechs.
WASHINGTON—Anthropic said it has entered what it described as a new era in cybersecurity after developing an unreleased artificial intelligence model the company said is too dangerous to make public, with the firm claiming the system has already identified thousands of high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers, according to BankInfoSecurity.
TAMPA--As open banking expands across the United States, credit unions should pause before rushing into strategy decisions and instead examine the broader data-sharing ecosystem that is rapidly reshaping financial services — including risks and opportunities that go well beyond simply replacing screen scraping with APIs.