As we all know, there’s such a thing as hitting a nerve.
THE 'tude
Credit unions acquiring banks is a new reality and is unlikely to be reversed.
Who was the best quarterback of the economy?
As a lifelong accountant, my dad had a sign hanging in his office that said, “Auditors are the ones who come in after the war to bayonet the wounded.”
If you’ve turned into (or already were) the model 21st century media consumer, then this collection of "consumable" items from around the credit union community is just for you…
Maybe they were sucking up to the audience—or maybe credit unions just aren’t taking the hint.
Forrest Gump had his box of chocolates, TV game shows have their mystery curtains, and credit unions have their merger disclosure forms. What all three share in common is you never know what you’re going to get.
In 2006, Alan Mulally, then Ford CEO, made a bold move.
Earlier this year I was sitting in on a good-sized meeting made up almost entirely of credit union volunteers, when one man stood and shared how his daughter had looked a new picture of the board on which he served and reacted, “Holy crap, dad! Are you a board of old white men?”
The craft industry-cooperative movement can be traced back tothe mid-1700s and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when local craftsman found themselves with little access to markets and financial services as a result of the newly created industrial processes.