An AI Success Checklist For Credit Unions
Key steps to help credit unions thoughtfully integrate AI across different areas to ensure a secure, effective approach to artificial intelligence.
Key steps to help credit unions thoughtfully integrate AI across different areas to ensure a secure, effective approach to artificial intelligence.
A senior technology leader at Interra Credit Union discusses being an “AI champion” and offers advice for credit unions starting their AI journey.
The California cooperative uses artificial intelligence to help staff build rapport with members. Employees love it, efficiency is up, and service is better than ever.
Filene Fellow Dr. Lamont Black explores AI’s transformative role in the credit union of the future.
Generative AI offers both opportunities and risks for credit unions. Understanding its capabilities and how to adopt it thoughtfully is the first step toward embracing its real-world applications.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use these tools to eliminate inefficiencies and accelerate key processes, while strengthening member relationships.
The first full day of the Governmental Affairs Conference included a frank assessment of threats to the credit union tax status, news about the future of the NCUA, and more.
This year’s finalists help credit unions do more with data to grow their business and increase efficiency.
The Illinois-based credit union has used analytics, AI, and more old-fashioned methods to keep members and deepen relationships.
This year’s finalists are reshaping how credit unions approach lending thanks to increased efficiencies, AI, and more.

A look at year-end performance trends reveals how earnings, affordability pressures, and asset quality are redefining the operating environment heading into 2026.

Members are struggling with an affordability crisis that is changing how they manage debt, and new behaviors are showing up across the credit union loan portfolio.

This year’s Innovation Series returns with bigger impact and broader horizons. Since 2018, this annual showcase has spotlighted forward-thinking solutions by giving innovators a stage to share ideas, demonstrate solutions, and spark meaningful change.
Credit union asset quality didn’t collapse in 2025 — but it didn’t cooperate, either. What’s going on, and are credit unions prepared to respond in 2026?

This year’s Innovation Series returns with bigger impact and broader horizons. Since 2018, this annual showcase has spotlighted forward-thinking solutions by giving innovators a stage to share ideas, demonstrate solutions, and spark meaningful change.

This year’s Innovation Series returns with bigger impact and broader horizons. Since 2018, this annual showcase has spotlighted forward-thinking solutions by giving innovators a stage to share ideas, demonstrate solutions, and spark meaningful change.
The affordability crisis extends far beyond big-ticket expenses. As the rising cost of basic necessities outpaces income growth, household budgets are under strain and long-term financial stability is increasingly at risk.
As credit unions move deeper into 2026, the earnings conversation is shifting. Elevated interest rates have boosted margins and strengthened earnings flexibility, but that advantage won’t persist indefinitely.
A radical shift is taking place in the way consumers move money and engage with their financial institution.

How the Michigan-based cooperative’s “Culture of Finance” curriculum is reframing financial education.
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