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Filene recently visited with several guests from an Australian credit union who were on a study tour through the United States. This particular credit union has a unique strategy, which tightly links environmental sustainability to their image. When asked how this successful (and peculiar) strategy came to be, our Australian guest stated that it was implemented because it comported with their CEO’s economic rationalist view of the world.
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Since November 2009, I’ve enjoyed working with two rising stars in the credit union world: Matt Davis and Brent Dixon. Both are playing in Filene’s sandbox through next April. Their task…to help make credit unions:
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Despite significant investments in financial education in the United States over the past 10 years, young adults lack adequate knowledge of personal finance facts and tools to navigate the financial marketplace. In this special report made possible, in part, by PSCU Financial Services, researchers Bob Hoel and Ron Smith found that conducting quick, low-cost financial education seminars to graduating college students could be a potent tool for credit unions to engage with young adults at a pivotal time in their financial lives.
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