Through independent research and innovation, the Filene Research Institute explores issues vital to the future of credit unions and consumer finance.
Consumer’s brains hurt today. What is to made of bailouts, Icelandic bank failures, the credit crunch and a looming recession? Ramit Sethi, founder of the I Will Teach You to Be Rich blog weighs in on the topic and proposes several clever tactics for credit unions to consider.
categories » Podcasts, Young Adult Recruiting, Young Adults and Families
In a previous post Filene Fellow and UC-Berkeley professor Jim Wilcox provided his view on the current economic situation. Now in part two of this series, Filene Fellow and Rochester Institute of Technology professor Robert Manning weighs in on the topic.
categories » Filene News, Research in Motion
Last week, your research council and i3 group convened for a joint meeting to discuss the credit union system’s research and innovation priorities in Portland, Oregon. What follows is a summary of the meeting and some thoughts on potential next steps.
The U.S. Treasury Department is asking every man, woman and child in the United States to contribute $2,300 to stabilize the financial markets, and by proxy, the entire economy. To help make sense of this historic situation, the Filene Research Institute is tapping the expertise of our Research Fellows, a blue ribbon panel of experts from the academic and consulting world.
categories » Filene News, Research in Motion
Imagine you have a well-known, influential opinion maker in the elevator with you on the ride up to your hotel room at your favorite credit union meet up. This opinion maker has been seeing credit union people all over the hotel the past few days. She looks at your name badge and asks, “What are credit unions and why should I care?”
categories » Life Cycle and Evolution of Credit Unions, Philosophy and Values
Filene Research Fellow and Research Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology has been all over the popular media and credit union conference circuit here, there and don’t forget this one with his thoughts on consumer debt, the housing crisis and personal bankruptcy topics.
categories » Filene News, Research in Motion
Today’s New York Times reports Citibank and other large banking lenders are abandoning or significantly cutting back student lending activities at community colleges and less selective four year colleges.
categories » CU Tomorrow, Research in Motion, Young Adults and Families
Each year, tens of thousands of bright minds pursue their PhD and publish such electic research as Sealed-Bid Auction of Dutch Mussels: A Statistical Analysis and Kinky Perceived Demand Curves and Keynes-Negishi Equilibria. Although, I’m sure a lot of people care about Dutch Mussels and Kinky Demand Curves, Filene Research Institute is more interested in consumer finance research.
categories » PhD Funding, Philosophy and Values, Research in Motion
The idea of integrating sustainability into credit union’s core strategy has been swirling around Filene for years. It wasn’t until one of our Filene Fellow introduced me to Stuart Hart (Cornell University) and Monica Touesnard that I felt that Filene could dig deeper into this proposition. Listen to Hart and Touesnard perspectives on the project:
categories » Innovation, Podcasts
In addition to Filene Research Institute’s recent publication on credit union collaboration, we’ve asked an expert on the topic to add a bit more to the discourse. Randy Karnes is CEO of CU Answers and a pioneer in the world of collaboration. We hope you enjoy the discussion.
categories » Collaboration, Podcasts, Research in Motion