Musings from the CU Suite

Mar 22, 2019

NAFCU's Weekend Reading Pile

Compiled by Anthony Demangone, Powered by NAFCU

It was a great week in Greenville, SC, where NAFCU hosted its Strategic Growth Conference.  There was a great discussion all week about how you can balance technology and humanity - balancing the digital and analog worlds. 

And I just had it happen to me. I'm sitting in the Greenville airport, and there's no gate assigned for my flight back to DC. So I set an alarm to remind myself to get up and check on the gate in about 30 minutes. But then I got this text...

text

A small piece of technology - a text - removed a little bit of friction in my life.  

Now...on to this week's reading pile. 

  • NAFCU discusses reg impact in the new housing bill. There's a great deep-dive analysis that highlights some new regulatory burdens in the proposal. (NAFCU)
  • How Sears lost the American shopper. (WSJ)
  • Data becomes a cash crop for big Agriculture. (Bloomberg)
  • Why Americans are refusing to pick up the phone. (Ozy)
  • One expert thinks "banking" will become embedded experiences. (FB)
  • Customer Experiences depend on more than data. (FB)
  • Faucets and drains. (Godin)
  • What is the future of E-commerce? 10 insights. (Shopify)
  • The rise of the tech economist. (CNN)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

About the Author

Anthony Demangone, Executive Vice President and COO, NAFCU

Anthony Demangone, NCCO is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at NAFCU, where he oversees day-to-day operations and manages the association's education, marketing, membership, human resources, building facilities, finance and information technology functions. He also authors NAFCU's executive blog, Musings from the CU Suite and co-authored "Managing and Leading Well," a book for credit union leaders, with NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger.

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