June 19 2019
Features
Using an open platform to improve the member experience and integrate more capabilities.
Unveiled With Tahira Hayes
Get outside or take a vacation - you may come back with a new and refreshed way of looking at things.
Editor\'s Column
If I'd been in MCU's employees' shoes, I would have asked for the maximum sentence for Wong. Would you?
Focus Report
Experts reveal good interest rates are no longer enough for credit unions to build mortgage business.
Learn the three elements of flood insurance compliance that a lender should focus its regulatory efforts on.
Government loans can help CUs reach first-time homebuyers and individuals who may not have pristine credit.
Real estate originations increase in 2018 in the South, Midwest and Mountain states, but fall in the Pacific and Northeast.
Guest Opinion
Without data security, even the most robust data privacy structure is simply erased.
Community News
This week's Community news includes a beach clean-up day and Budgeting for Baby workshop.
People
Plus, CUSO Extensia Financial hires a new chief lending officer.
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