To keep your card program healthy, an understanding of current profitability levels and long-term pressures is critical. This session provides the tools, models, and techniques valuable to all credit unions that either currently issue credit cards or are considering doing so.
In the battle to maintain relevance to your members, credit unions need to continually reassess the value provided by their credit card products. “Lowest Rate” is rarely enough (or even best). Understanding different member needs, segmenting your product set accordingly and targeting the value propositions carefully a credit union can increase penetration, grow its program, best serve individual m
Successfully promoting and growing a card program requires a multi-faceted approach: new accounts, existing accounts, and inactive account all need your attention. This session will offer segmentation and marketing approaches that work at a credit union scale, and will include specific marketing campaign examples of what works (and what doesn’t).
Every credit card program exists within a challenging competitive environment and overall economy. This first session will set the stage for the year, providing background on what the largest issuers are doing, what economic forces are in play, and what challenges are most important to credit union card issuers. As always, we look to identifying our advantages and ensuring we know how to make the
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