Meet The Finalists For The 2026 Innovation Series: Data And Decision Intelligence
This year’s finalists are reimagining how credit unions use data to boost service levels and improve efficiencies.
This year’s finalists are reimagining how credit unions use data to boost service levels and improve efficiencies.
Explore the subtle shifts redefining the credit union core processing space and how these movements shape growth, innovation, and member experience.
Driving digital delivery? Evaluating vendor platforms? Sharpening tech strategy for a new year? This week of insights is built for credit union leaders looking to stay ahead.
From bonuses to candy budgets, Credit Union 1 and Purdue FCU offer tips to successfully manage one of financial services’ biggest hurdles.
These five quick benchmarks ensure your core platform fosters growth, adaptability, and member satisfaction — helping your institution keep a winning edge.
Explore the subtle shifts redefining the credit union core processing space and how these movements are shape growth, innovation, and member experience.
A survey of industry leaders shows what tipped the scales when selecting their most recent core provider — the answers extend way beyond the price tag.
Switching to a core provider that serves credit unions and beyond? Two leaders offer the advice they’d have given themselves if they had to do it all over again.
The Oklahoma credit union is deploying new tools that change the game for its staff and its mission-based membership strategies.
When evaluating a modern technology stack, credit unions must consider four strategic factors.

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.