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SAN DIEGO–No entrepreneurial culture at the credit union? It’s the CEO’s fault. Compliance keeping your CU from doing what it would like to do? You’re just making excuses. You didn’t “grow up” with Snapchat and don’t plan to ever use it? Tough.

ORLANDO—Time for credit unions to gain a strong understanding of application program interfaces (APIs), insists one analyst who said the increasing speed at which devices and programs are connecting is making the tech protocol much more mainstream.

ORLANDO—Fees is not a four-letter word, according to one analyst, who says that’s just a fact credit unions are going to need to come to grips with as debit interchange—a big piece of CU non-interest income—is going away.

WASHINGTON—Small credit unions face a difficult choice when it comes to technology—spend money on member-facing digital services that help the CU grow–or pay for shoring up cyber defenses to keep their data safe.

LAS VEGAS–Your credit union may have invested heavily in data security, yet thanks to your employees and even your own professional networking, breaching that data remains as easy as ever.

BROOKFIELD, Wis.—Adoption of electronic billing and payment services continues to grow, and financial institutions continue to miss out, according to one company.