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The CU2.0 Podcast

Robert McGarvey

This podcast explores contemporary, critical thinking and issues impacting the nation"s credit unions. What do they need to be doing to not just survive but prosper?

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CU 2.0 Podcast Fast Take: SELCO Community Credit...

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2024/09/23

Send us a textThe press release headline grabbed my attention: “SELCO Community Credit Union Awards $200,000 Grant to SquareOne Villages for the Development of the Rosa Village Co-Op in Eugene.”SELCO has been on the show before, with Olivia Sorensen,Senior Community Development Specialist for SELCO, talking about SELCO Steps Up, where the credit union thoughtfully seeks to do good in its communities while addressing societal challenges.In this latest case, SELCO - a $2.7 billion credit union ...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 318 James Robert Lay on...

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2024/09/18

Send us a textJames Robert Lay is back with a new book, Banking on Change, and a message that will rock credit union executives out of complacency: “The Age of Artificial Intelligence spares no one from its transformative power.”This podcast is a fast paced, 40 minute romp through the changes that are transforming banking as we’ve known it into something that looks entirely different.Consider the words: checking account. Or even more obscure: sharedraft account. What this is, really, is...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Greatest Hits #15 Tom Shen Fintech Guru

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2024/09/16

Send us a textTom Shen is a fintech success story. He was EVP at Digital Insight when Intuit bought it for truckloads of cash. He went on to found Malauzai, a truly innovative mobile banking app. Finastra bought it in 2018.Nowadays Shen is on the board of a number of early stage fintechs, he’s an investor, and he genuinely understands what it takes for a fintech to succeed in the unique world of credit unions. He tells how here.Listen up.

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 317 Eric Foster on Woop Insurance

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2024/09/11

Send us a textThe show starts by asking Eric Foster, CEO of Woop Insurance, why the heck he named the company Woop, and it gets livelier from there.Hard to believe a podcast about insurance could be anything other than humdrum.Believe.Insurance is going through massive changes as many insurers are dramatically raising rates and/or pulling out of entire markets. Consumers accordingly are scrambling to stay insured at affordable rates.That’s where Woop comes in. It feasts on analytics and...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Fast Take: Shared Branching Is a Key...

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2024/09/09

Send us a textWhat’s the second biggest branch network in US financial services?Guess Wells Fargo and you’re wrong. It has 5600 branches which makes it the nation’s leader.But the CO-OP Shared Branching network for credit unions has 5444 branches which puts it in second place.Chase is third with 4700.Who knew?I have thought very little about shared branching in the years I have covered credit unions and I have never done a podcast about it.So when an email showed up in my box offering P...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 316 Solarity's David Eldred on...

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2024/09/04

Send us a textThis podcast started at the CU 2.0 Live event in Arizona a few months ago because that’s where a lightbulb went off in David Eldred’s head. Chief experience officer at billion dollar Solarity Credit Union in Washington State, Eldred went to the conference already aware of AI but at the conference he began to see that really, truly he could put AI to work at Solarity in very useful ways.He also learned how, in a matter of short minutes, he could create a very useful custom ...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 315 Starlight's Search for...

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2024/08/28

Send us a textThere’s $140 billion in unclaimed federal benefits and assistance for households in need.That’s a mountain of money.Why is it unclaimed? Sometimes it’s because folks just don’t know it exists. Often it’s because the process of applying for it can be daunting - especially for the people who need it most.Enter Starlight, a New York based startup helmed by Catherine Xu and Shreenath Regunathan, both tech geeks.Starlight’s aim is to catalog the available monies, make a database that...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Money Talks with Kirk Kordeleski on...

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2024/08/27

Send us a Text Message.Call this podcast what you think you know about SERPs but that’s not fact.Two truths are plain: senior credit union executives want to secure their retirement much as their for profit sector peers do AND there just is a lot of confusion about SERPs - supplemental retirement plans.A big reason for this show is that in it Kirk Kordelesi, onetime CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest, and now a partner with PARC Street, shines a bright light on ...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Greatest Hits #14 Samira Rajan...

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2024/08/26

Send us a Text Message.On any list of my personal favorite CU 2.0 podcasts is episode 149 - it dropped May 2021 - with Samira Rajan, CEO of the Brooklyn Cooperative, a small, scrappy credit union.How did a Bryan Mawr graduate - who also has a master’s from Harvard's Kennedy School - wind up in Bushwick at a tiny credit union?She started there in 2001 as a volunteer and these many years later she’s the CEO.Hers is a brilliant credit union story.Listen up.

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 314 Alloy's Sara Seguin on...

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2024/08/21

Send us a Text Message.Fraud - there’s your five letter word for today and inside many credit unions it’s counted as a curse.Fraud also is in the midst of an AI driven revolution. Fraudsters - just as you are - are harnessing AI tools to get smarter, faster, better.On the show today is Sara Seguin, principal adviser, fraud and identity risk at Alloy, a provider to more than 500 banks, fintechs and credit unions.In the show we discuss what’s new in fraud and fraud defenses -- and the hea...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 313 Jennifer Oliver Rize...

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2024/08/14

Send us a Text Message.Jennifer Oliver wants to tell you about Rize where the tagline is Beyond Banking. That’s an Irwindale CA based billion dollar institution - formerly SCE Credit Union - but Oliver says that even when she interviewed for the job she already was thinking about a name change.SCE, by the way, stands for Southern California Edison, a big electric utility. In the show Oliver explains why she thought the name had to change.But, importantly, this is more than a name change...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Greatest Hits #13 Kent Lugrand InTouch...

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2024/08/12

Send us a Text Message.There are some CEOs you just like. Kent Lugrand, CEO of InTouch Credit Union, is one such and, with him, he has a personal story about his winding path to becoming CEO of a large credit union that will just get you.One of the pleasures of doing this podcast is that I get to throw a spotlight on unique credit union people who help make the industry different.This is one.The interview was recorded about two years ago.Listen up

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 312 Martin Walker Explains...

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2024/08/07

Send us a Text Message.Martin Walker is the man to know if you are a fintech looking for credit union related venture funding and he also is the man to know if you are a credit union looking to invest in fintechs.On LinkedIn Walker’s tag line is Investing in Fintechs that Enable Credit Unions.That pretty much says it.Walker and I started talking at the June CU 2.0 Live event in Fountain Hills AZ and that conversation led to this show.In the show Walker tells fintechs what they nee...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 311 Rosenthal + McCray on...

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2024/07/30

Send us a Text Message.Probably you think a book titled Community Capital has to be a snoozefest. And then there’s the new book with that title written by Clifford Rosenthal and Michael McCray and it’s a book that will rock you and your beliefs about NCUA, African American focused credit unions and more.The book splits into two parts. There’s Rosenthal’s part where he looks at the struggles of smaller community based crest unions - he served as CEO of the National Federation of Co...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Golden Oldie #12 BECU's Gary Oakland...

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2024/07/29

Send us a Text Message.Call this the credit union oral history sequence - Blaine, Bucky Sebastian, now Gary Oakland who took over BECU, with around $700 million in assets, in the mid 1980s and when he left in 2012 it had become a $10 billion+ credit union, one of the nation's very biggest.How'd he do it? Listen up.

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 310 Kirk Drake + Chris Otey on...

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2024/07/24

Send us a Text Message.Four years ago Kirk Drake wrote a book that explored how artificial intelligence - AI - would transform financial services. Now he’s released a free addendum that tells what he got right in the book, what he got wrong, how he is using AI tools to effect big gains in his personal productivity and where he sees AI making big differences in credit union operations.It’s meaty stuff and also keenly practical.That’s why he is on the show today with Chris Otey, co-founde...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 309 AI Gets Real at One Nevada...

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2024/07/17

Send us a Text Message.Artificial intelligence: is it real or a mirage?Lots of credit union executives are pondering exactly that question and on the show today are Steve O’Donnell, EVP at One Nevada Credit Union, and Saroop Bahrwani, founder of Senso and CUCopilot, a generative AI toolkit.They came to the show fresh from a three day joint engagement where Saroop and his team went to the One Nevada offices and branches and dug deep into what AI is doing and could be doing to make credit...

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CU .0 Podcast Golden Oldie #11 Wendell "Bucky" Sebastian

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2024/07/15

Send us a Text Message.A state regulator in Illinois. General counsel at NCUA. A co-founder of Callahan Associates. Longtime CEO at GTE Financial. Head of the National Credit Union Foundation. Guess who.Meet Wendell Sebastian, call him Bucky.

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CU 2.0 Podcast Money Talks with Kirk Kordeleski

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2024/07/15

Send us a Text Message.What happens when an executive who is seeking a SERP plan to sweeten his/her retirement years is turned down for life insurance - which is the bedrock that supports many SERP plans?And people do get turned down for life insurance due to health issues. Anything from cancer to obesity.On the show today is Kirk Kordeleski, onetime CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest, and now a partner with PARC Street, where the focus is on matching executives...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 308 Michael Heller on CUSOs

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2024/07/10

Send us a Text Message.Subtitle this show: All You Want to Know about CUSOs but Didn’t Know to Ask.On the show is Michael Heller, an associate with Messick Lauer & Smith, a leading firm in CUSO law.Heller and I had started talking at the CU 2.0 Live event in Fountain Hills AZ and it was only natural to capture the conversation on tape for distribution as a podcast.Here, Heller talks about how CUSOs have evolved to serve new, different needs at credit unions and he also discusses several p...

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