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Geri Dillingham, chief operating officer of North Island Credit Union in San Diego, CA and one of the inaugural members of the Filene i3 group, was recently named by “BAI Banking Strategies” magazine as one of the top 10 “Maverick Bankers of the Year”. Notably, she is the only maverick from a credit union.
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The Filene Research Institute has selected 13 exceptional credit union executives to join the Institute’s i3 (Ideas, Innovation, Implementation) Group, which fosters the development of new ideas and innovations for credit unions.
Each member will serve a three-year term and participate in semi-annual meetings arranged by Filene. The next meeting will be held October 1-3 in Portland, Oregon.
“The Filene Research Institute is proud to welcome these creative and energetic professionals as new members of our i3 Group,” says Denise Gabel, Filene’s chief innovation officer.
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It is not unsual for decisions to be made at my house by flipping a coin. Economists have a much tougher job when it comes to forecasting the economy. With gas prices hitting another all-time high today, it is easy to see why people feel gloomy about our economic future. What isn’t easy, is accurately forcasting these economic highs and lows. Filene Fellow, James Wilcox, professor of financial institutions at UC Berkeley, shed some light on this topic in the Federal Reserve article Consumer Sentiment and Consumer Spending.
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