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Send us a Text Message.It was over two years ago that Chase Neinken was on the podcast talking up Chimney, a fintech focused on delivering cool, fun calculators to credit unions.Neinken is back and here’s the reason: in fall 2023 Chimney won “best in show” at Finovate and that’s because it debuted Chimney Home, a new tool for credit unions that shows a credit union member today’s value of their home and also lets an institution deliver personalized offers to members.Admit it, you know how add...

Send us a Text Message.Scrolling through LinkedIn, I happened upon this post on Seth Brickman’s page: “I am excited to announce that I am now the President, Ranqx and can’t wait to help credit unions help small businesses and change communities for the better.”Stop presses. Brickman, longtime listeners to this podcast well know, had been CEO of QCash, an innovative service birthed at WSECU and which had been sold to Alloya, a bit over a year ago.What was up with Brickman? On Linke...

Send us a Text Message.You're a credit union c-suiter and you dream about what good you could do if only you had more capital.Don't just but lottery tickets!Explore a sale-leaseback of the credit union's headquarters and branches.This is explored in depth in episode 241 where Ed Lopes and Steve Eimert of CU Real Estate Solutions tell the nitty gritty.Oh, and my own personal credit union, Affinity in New Jersey, sold its HQ for $50 million-plus. I applaud that decision.Listen up.

Send us a Text Message.Call this an encore performance with powerful, new information. Back on the show is Rhian Horgan, founder and CEO of Silvur, which she bills as retirement all in one place.As we age suddenly most of us have to deal with complex and, to us, wholly new topics such as Social Security and Medicare, both involving devilishly complex decisions - and a helping hand extended by a credit union would be greatly appreciated by many aging Americans.Who better to offer this help tha...

Send us a Text Message.Let the Greatest Hits roll on. This is the CU 2.0 Podcast Greatest Hits #7 - everything you want to know about USDA loans. That’s the US Department of Agriculture and it makes loan money available through credit unions to fund everything from farm equipment to renewable energy.I had no idea this program existed and that credit unions are involved. Probably you didn’t either.Listen up to this Greatest Hit.

Send us a Text Message.Regular listeners know that a pet peeve of mine is how poorly most credit unions market.And then I discovered Bo McDonald, founder and CEO of Your Marketing Co. where the focus is on marketing for small credit unions.That’s right: small as in under $400 million in assets.In most cases, McDonald’s company acts as a kind of inhouse marketing department because the institutions he serves often have few if any internal marketing staff.McDonald knows too that great mar...