P-Cards Bring New Expense Control Tool into the System
Credit unions are implementing purchase card, or p-card, programs to streamline payables, manage cash, and earn on their spending.
Credit unions are implementing purchase card, or p-card, programs to streamline payables, manage cash, and earn on their spending.
With net interest margin at its lowest level in recent history, credit unions will need greater focus on expense control to overcome the earnings squeeze.
Looking for new opportunities, we formed a CUSO holding company and within it a marketing company. This marketing company serves credit unions, even banks, has been profitable since inception and has extended our reach to persons otherwise not served.
Many seniors are concerned about funding their retirement, especially with rising medical and living expenses. A reverse mortgage product allows credit unions help older members address their financial needs.
As the ability to expand and advance member offerings online continues forward, credit unions are looking for enhanced ways to empower their members with technology to better understand their needs and position the credit union more favorably as the trusted primary financial institution (PFI). Popular solutions are emerging that
Introducing monthly dues was a risky move for Arizona Federal. Yet one year later, the credit union has a more engaged membership as a result.
Investment and insurance services, two key non-traditional products emerging in credit unions today, can help credit unions achieve a variety of new revenue goals and member service needs. Find out why one credit union has instead turned to a new and more flexible solution for its investment and insurance program.
Never has the competition for auto loans been so fierce. Find out how one credit union is rethinking strategies to aggressively capture these loans.
There is what some will call financial illiteracy in this country. It is broad, deep and very widespread. It works much to the disadvantage of credit unions and to the advantage of banks and lending corporations. What can credit unions do to turn this around, help members and increase advertising success?
When Navy Federal decided to form a CUSO to offer investment and insurance services to members, it was a seismic indicator of the changing financial needs of members of the world’s largest credit union. Learn how they set program goals, what services they provide, and what they expect from the future.

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The Philadelphia-area cooperative scores among rate-shopping members with a co-branded certificate that links savings returns to college basketball results.
The credit unions that will win the next decade of card growth are those that treat credit cards not as one time product launches but as dynamic ecosystems requiring continuous investment.

Gen Z’s faith in traditional institutions gives credit unions a rich opportunity to serve as a key source of financial guidance.

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