This new article my colleagues and I wrote sheds an important lens into the Six imperatives for credit unions to secure their future. Credit unions have played a very important role in financial services and financial inclusion in the US since the first credit union was founded in 1908, and have had a strong run in recent years (they now account for ~10% of industry deposits and ~140M members, and have outgrown banks since 2018).However, the demographic challenge facing credit unions is real: their membership is aging (Gen Z and Millennials comprise of 31% of credit union members vs. 41% of bank customers), and younger generations tend to see relatively less value than older ones with them. Credit unions' share of new account openings has declined as a result.The good news is the underlying mission and values of credit unions align very well with those of younger customers. The bad news is credit unions need to do substantial work to gain momentum with them. However, if they are successful, credit unions can fundamentally reposition the movement.
More here: https://lnkd.in/ex72VPJn with Atanas Stoyanov Jeffrey Brown Michael Kirchner Suhas Gudhe Darius Imregun Peter Noteboom Pradip Patiath
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