Interest margin pressures will become more obvious in 2016.

Breakout session teaches CUs how to cultivate locally grown advocacy.

CUNA Board Chair Susan Streifel, addressing the opening general session of the combined America’s Credit Union Conference and World Council of Credit Unions Conference Sunday, called on her international audience of credit union leaders and advocates to renew their commitment to making credit unions the best financial partners for people in this country and around the world.

“We believe that it is in the interest of humanity that global policymakers and regulators understand credit unions, that they note the value of member-oriented services credit unions provide and that they support the diversity which, thanks to credit unions, is a benefit not just to credit union members, but to all consumers.”

The Federation of Community Development CUs and CUNA will combine their community-oriented conferences.

‘The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.’