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In this episode of the CUES Podcast, guest Lee Wetherington, senior director of corporate strategy at CUES Supplier member Jack Henry, discusses the impact that artificial intelligence is already having on credit unions. Two areas that will be improved by AI are member experience and service and fraud mitigation, he says.“The top two use cases are member service—specifically, in short to mid-term, generative AI assist technologies to real people in the credit union who are fielding members’ m...

In this episode of the CUES podcast we talk about payment trends and strategies with guest Tede Forman, president of payment solutions at CUES Supplier member Jack Henry. He leads the company’s strategy and solutions for payments and spoke about why Jack Henry actively participated with the Federal Reserve to help develop its real-time payments network, FedNow.“We wanted to offer this opportunity to all of our community financial institutions (and) specifically credit unions right from the st...

In this episode we talk about human-centered leadership. Returning to the show as our guest is CUES’ own VP/Consulting Services Lesley Sears, who heads up our CUES Consulting offerings.She explains the difference between a business-centered culture and a human-centered one and shares why centering your people will ultimately be better for the business.“In business-centered leadership, you're primarily focused on the numbers. You're focused on the ways of business that are outside of the peopl...

Knowledge is key to success in business lending, according to Jim Devine, co-founder, CEO and chairman of Hipereon, a financial training company based in Washington state, and lead faculty member for CUES’ School of Business Lending, which starts April 1.In this latest episode of the CUES Podcast, Devine says his aim with the school each year is to “make sure ... that everybody going out the back door has the foundational skills that give them confidence that they can take a set of financial ...

Fintech, including artificial intelligence, is at the top of many credit union leaders’ worry list for 2024.The guest in this episode of the CUES Podcast, Scott Snyder, has ideas for how to approach these concerns that should be steadying. A recognized thought leader in technology and innovation, Snyder has more than 30 years of experience in emerging technologies, business strategy and innovation, and digital transformation for Global 1000 companies.When it comes to emerging and potentially ...

The 2023 CUES Emerging Leader says the best advice he got about the CUES Emerge program was not to go into it with a preconceived notion about what his business case for the competition phase would be.In this episode of the CUES Podcast, Jayde DelGado, CCM, branch manager for $1.8 billion Harborstone Credit Union, Lakewood, Washington, tells the story of a 1:1 meeting with his CEO, CUES member Geoff Bullock and the 2017 winner of the challenge, then called Next Top Credit Union Exec. DelGado ...