What is the Difference?

The National Credit Union conference next week has been pitched as exploring the credit union ‘difference’.  It is common to hear the CCUA and some other advocates for credit unions make a general reference to the ‘difference’.  The CCUA home page includes this text: Credit unions are full service financial co-operatives. Like other financial institutions, […]

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Bankers` Long Game

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Consolidation and cartel building is the long term strategy of the Big Banks and it seems to go on without much alarm.  This is partly because of their patience and partly because other players are distracted by other things; technology, risk management, new capital rules, new liquidity monitoring tools,  mortgage insurance changes, etc..  But these […]

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