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  • Allied Solutions

    Allied Solutions is the NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for Bond Insurance, Impact Overdraft, Creditor Placed Insurance, Guaranteed Auto Protection, and Mechanical Breakdown Protection.

  • White Hat Award
    The White Award is awarded to the member credit union that raises the most for NAFCU/PAC. The award, presented at NAFCU's Annual Conference and Solutions Expo honors the winning credit union's commitment to NAFCU/PAC and to helping keep credit union supporters in Congress.
  • Partners A-Z
    An alphabetical listing of all preferred partners and their recommended solutions.
  • CU Data & Research
    NAFCU is your source for up-to-date credit union data and research related to credit union industry trends, performance monitoring and critical reports addressing credit unions and the economy.
  • VantageScore Solutions, LLC
    VantageScore is the NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for credit scoring, providing credit unions with a consistent interpretation of consumer credit files across the three credit reporting companies and the ability to score a broad population. This means credit unions can help more creditworthy borrowers, and millions of Americans who use credit infrequently, to be accurately scored.
  • Pentegra Retirement Services

    Pentegra Retirement Services is NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for credit union qualified retirement plans such as 401(k) plans and defined benefit plans. It is a non-profit organization and provides full fiduciary plan protection. 

  • SAS Institute Inc.
    SAS is the NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for business intelligence software and predictive analytics. With 32 years experience and 44,000 customer sites worldwide, SAS helps credit unions manage performance, transforming data into predictive insights.
  • Conferences

    NAFCU conferences are designed to help strengthen and accelerate your career and your credit union’s mission. You will benefit from industry-leading presenters and exclusive networking events in locations across the country. Whatever your career path may be, NAFCU has a conference or school to help you grow and reach new heights!

  • Security Incident Response - Lessons Learned

    August 15, 2012 
    2:00 - 3:30 p.m. EDT
    Available until August 15, 2013

    With the steady increase in hacking and modern malware constantly evolving, defensive measures need to improve to evade attackers.  



     

  • CEOs and Senior Executives Conference
    The 2013 NAFCU CEOs and Senior Executives Conference, April 24-26 in Sonoma, California, is designed for credit union executives and CEOs. This leading credit union conference provides a forum to learn about and discuss the future of credit unions. Through interactive sessions and networking events you will gain new ideas and fresh perspectives to take back to your credit union and plan for your future success.
  • CU Industry Trends Report Archive
    NAFCU’s CU Industry Trends is a NAFCU member-only quarterly report of the latest trends among federal credit unions. Download archived reports and data tables here.
  • Credit Union Industry Trends
    Keep your finger on the pulse of the credit union industry with NAFCU’s data-driven reports and studies related to critical factors that affect your credit union growth and performance.
  • Measure Your CU Financial Performance
    Use our new quarterly member-only CU Performance Benchmark report to monitor emerging trends and key financial benchmarks. This one-of-a-kind report gives you a customized financial performance analysis using your credit union’s data, compared to regional and asset class peers.
  • Marketing Award Winners

    NAFCU’s 2012 Marketing Award program rewards the most creative and successful promotions of the credit union community. Nominations are accepted within eight different award categories. Each award category consists of two asset size categories:  credit unions with less than $150M in assets and credit unions with assets of $150M or more.

    Winners of NAFCU’s 2012 Marketing Awards will be recognized by their peers, by their members and by credit union leaders across the country. This recognition ceremony will take place during NAFCU's 2012 Strategic Growth Conference, March 13-15, at the FireSky Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona.

     

  • Travel & Accommodations
    Information on travel and accommodations for the 2013 NAFCU Strategic Growth Conference including, hotel reservations, car rental and airline ticket discounts and New Orleans attractions.
  • Annual Conference and Solutions Expo
    Join leaders and credit union solution providers at NAFCU's 46th Annual Conference and Solutions Expo, July 9-13 in Boston, to learn the cutting-edge strategies, solutions and trends that will help you readily adapt to an ever-changing credit union industry and make history!
  • Managing Credit Union Vendor Due Diligence and Third Party Relationships
    More than ever, credit unions are looking for support from outside vendors to remain viable and healthy. When properly managed, credit union vendor relationships can bring expertise, economies of scale, benefits to your members and membership growth. In this webcast, learn best practices for managing credit union vendor due diligence and third party relationships.
  • Registration Fees
    Registration fees for the 2013 NAFCU Strategic Growth Conference, including early bird discounts, member and nonmember fees.
  • Business Solutions Showcase
    NAFCU's Business Solutions Showcase features the latest solutions to build your services and product development programs, including mobile banking, credit card servicing, business lending, business intelligence software, and much more!
  • NAFCU Services Corporation Preferred Partner Brochure
    NAFCU members take advantage of superior solutions offered by Preferred Partners through NAFCU Services Corporation. Download the brochure for a list of all Preferred Partners and their special benefits for NAFCU members.
  • NAFCU Services and Affinion Group Host Free Webinar on Award-Winning Merchant-Funded Rewards Programs
    Washington - NAFCU Services Corporation (www.nafcu.org/nafcuservices) and Affinion Group will host a free webinar educating credit unions about new strategies and best practices for building and maintaining a merchant-funded loyalty program on Tuesday, September 25, at 2:30 p.m. EDT.
  • NAFCU: NCUA Data Points to Credit Union Strength, Growth
    The National Credit Union Administration’s (NCUA) second-quarter call report data validates the fact that consumers continue to find new ways to reap the benefits of membership in Main Street’s credit unions
  • 2013 SGC Registration Image
    SGC13 location photo for registration page.
  • NAFCU Services Free CULookup.com Calculators Top 1 Million Computations in 2012

    Washington, DC - NAFCU Services Corporation today announced that CULookup.com’s award-winning financial calculators have already exceeded more than 1 million calculations by online users for the first six months of 2012. This is a nearly 30 percent increase over last year. At the current rate, calculations on the platform will exceed 2 million by year-end.

  • Opportunities in Offering Life Insurance with Your Financial Planning Program (Webcast)

    MoneyConcepts052412 A successful financial planning program consists of many solutions for your members to help them through their various life stages. One of those solutions is life insurance. In this webcast, we discuss the opportunities that exist for your credit union by offering life insurance to your members as part of your financial planning program.

  • Bringing the Branch Experience to the ATM (Webinar)

    Watch the BAI Banking Strategies webinar presented by NCR on NCR’s Interactive Teller Solution! Learn how you can meet and exceed customer expectations while lowering costs, optimizing staff deployment, and growing revenue.

  • Midnight in credit union mortgage lending (Blog Post)
    When was the best time in credit union mortgage lending? If you’ve seen Woody Allen’s latest movie, Midnight in Paris, then you may already know the answer to this question. The best time, of course, is right now. Read more of this NAFCU Services blog post.
  • Unlocking the 5 Keys to a Successful Financial Planning Program (Blog Post)
    To many people, the term financial planning evokes a feeling of exhaustion and confusion. I know I’m definitely in that category! Knowing this, it is essential that your credit union offers a financial planning program. Read more of this NAFCU Services blog post.
  • Vantiv Selected as NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for Merchant Services
    Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., April 16, 2012 – Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV), a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions for merchants and financial institutions of all sizes in the U.S., announced today that National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU) Services Corporation has added Vantiv Merchant Services to the company‟s suite of solutions in the NAFCU Services Preferred Partner program. Vantiv is also the NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for ATM and debit card processing solutions, and credit card processing and servicing.
  • 20% of members may be eligible for home refinance under HARP 2.0! (Webinar)
    The new Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) offers a huge opportunity for credit unions to help roughly 20% of members.  Watch and listen to this educational session on HARP 2.0 hosted by expert presenter, Nizar Hashlamon to hear more about a program that could change your members' lives, help boost the economy, and increase mortgage business at your credit union.
  • Emerging Payments: Understanding and Leveraging the Opportunities (Podcast and Presentation)
    As we all know, the payments landscape is changing. EMV is here. Mobile payments are growing and mobile sales in the U.S. are expected to increase at a 68% compounded annualized growth rate over the next five years. This session will provide you with an understanding of the impact and value these initiatives can bring to your credit union. Learn how to leverage the opportunities with key data and actionable take-aways for implementing a successful emerging payment strategy.
  • Undaunted: How Credit Unions Can Thrive in the New Financial Services Environment (Podcast and Presentation)
    The 2011 Deluxe Collaborative focused their research on understanding what members think and feel about their financial institution, regulations, products, and process. In this session from NAFCU's 2012 Strategic Growth Conference, learn five things these researchers discovered that will help your credit union thrive.
  • First Acts: What is Next for your Credit Union (Podcast)
    This session delves into how to jump start your momentum in growth by defining concrete steps, an innovative model, and defined tactics.
  • Getting More Business from Your Members with Electronic Strategies (Podcast and Presentation)

     In this 2012 Strategic Growth Conference session, learn how effectively communicating with your members and potential members has recently become more complicated. Explore how you can successfully integrate electronic response communications with conventional communication vehicles to stimulate your credit union’s growth.

  • Capitalizing on Market Changes to Grow Your Card Programs (Podcast and Presentation)

    In this 2012 Strategic Growth Conference session, we get to learn how to combine the messages in the market with your credit union brand to capitalize on this unique time, including promoting card features and functionality necessary to differentiate your credit union. We will also look at an analysis of key performance indicators and industry benchmarking data to see how your credit union stacks up!

  • Transforming the Customer Experience in Retail Branch Banking (Podcast and Presentation)

    How do credit unions create the right road map to incrementally improve their branch experience, all the while, delighting customers and cementing profitable long term relationships? In this 2012 Strategic Growth Conference session, check out the latest trends and how to integrate innovative technology solutions into your credit union’s roadmap! 

  • Community Resource Credit Union Revamps Credit Card Portfolio (Case Study)
    Three consecutive years…five percent annual losses. This was not what Community Resource Credit Union expected from its credit card portfolio. But the $275 million credit union knew its credit cards were beneficial to its members. It had to find a way to make the portfolio a viable, long-term solution that benefited both the credit union and members. In this case study, learn how this problem was solved.
  • NAFCU: NCUA Data Shows Credit Unions Continue Growth, Remain Financially Strong
    NAFCU said the National Credit Union Administration’s (NCUA) fourth quarter call report data underscores that credit unions are fiscally sound and growing in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

  • Marketing Award Categories and Evaluation Criteria

    Each year NAFCU rewards the most creative and successful promotions of the credit union community in NAFCU's Marketing Awards Program! Enter today, and give your credit union the chance to be recognized for your marketing successes!

    Following are the seven Marketing Awards categories. You may enter a maximum of 2 different categories. Within your selected categories, you may only enter one marketing piece. NAFCU will select one entry if multiple entries are submitted for one category.  

  • Best Membership Promotion 
  • Best Lending Promotion
  • Best Product or Service Promotion
  • Best Member Newsletter 
  • Best Annual Report
  • Best Promotional
  • NAFCU 2012 Outlook for Credit Unions: Optimistic Though Challenges Remain
    NAFCU today released its January issue of The Economic and CU Issues Monitor, which offered an outlook for the industry for 2012.

  • NAFCU Board Meets With the Federal Reserve

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 1, 2011  WASHINGTON – The National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU) Board met with the Federal Reserve today to discuss credit union issues and present the findings of its NAFCU 2011 Report on Credit Unions. The

  • NAFCU National Bank Transfer Day Survey
    NAFCU National Bank Transfer Day Survey
  • Economic Update for Credit Unions (Webinar)
    Understanding the forces behind our volatile economy is essential in our industry. Watch this October 2011 recorded webinar for an update on the economy and market, and how they will impact your credit union, now and in the future.
  • CUs’ consumer lending outpaces industry
    The recent string of consecutive consumer credit increases came to a halt in August, but credit unions reported a stronger pace of consumer lending than overall financial institutions.
  • Capito says MBL slated for October
    A hearing on credit unions’ member business lending authority will be held “sometime in October,” Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., told NAFCU’s Congressional Caucus yesterday.
  • Strengthening headwinds sink new-home sales
    August was another bad month for new-home sales, with increased concerns about instability in Europe just one of many headwinds that dragged sales down to the lowest monthly pace since February.
  • NCUA, NAFCU press on underserved
    NCUA and NAFCU told Congress Thursday that credit unions do an exemplary job of serving the underserved but could do even more if single-common-bond and community-chartered credit unions were able to add underserved areas to their fields of membership.
  • Existing-home sales surge not bellwether
    Buoyed by investor purchases, existing-home sales surged in August, but NAFCU does not believe the data are a sign of things to come.
  • FOMC stays course on rates, plans new moves
    The Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday reiterated its pledge to keep the federal funds target rate at a range of zero to 0.25 percent “at least through mid-2013” and announced new moves, including a controversial measure designed to keep long-term borrowing costs down.
  • Instructions for Entry

    Marketing Awards Instructions for Entry