Community Involvement, CECL, Succession At NAFCU Confab
Credit unions correlate giving back and growing loans, while accounting standards and succession planning spur table talk.
Credit unions correlate giving back and growing loans, while accounting standards and succession planning spur table talk.
What to take away from the conference at the “interface of psychology and economics?”
Empowering and engaging potential new homeowners and honoring obligations to military borrowers get close scrutiny at opening day of NAFCU’s annual conference.
What metrics should human resource professionals use to measure employee and credit union performance?
Risk managers monitor disparate areas of the credit union. For key ratios to follow, start with the measures that correspond to the risk indicators outlined by the NCUA.
Lending is the engine that powers credit unions, and these seven ratios will help every employee understand why.
The number of institutions has decreased even as the industry’s total assets have grown. But what else has happened in the past 60 months?
Lending and asset growth have been capturing industry headlines, but tight margins from sustained low interest rates and slowly rising operating expenses make some other benchmarks worth watching.
This week, CreditUnions.com focuses on the different metrics credit unions can use to measure and benchmark performance, whether looking to manage risk or guide loan growth.
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