International Credit Union Day is our chance to celebrate the many ways credit unions help their members build financial health for a brighter tomorrow. I hope you’re celebrating with outreach on social media. #ICUDay

The staff and leaders at Cornerstone League wish you all a very happy International Credit Union Day, and we hope you are making the most of this year’s theme: “Building financial health for a brighter tomorrow.”

In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, The Cornerstone League Podcast host Tanya Dittberner speaks with Cornerstone Resources VP of Information Security and Risk Management Consulting Idrees Rafiq, Jr. Rafiq talk about ways credit unions can #BeCyberSmart not just this month, but year-round.

For 25 Years, Credit Unions for Kids has supported Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals that raise the critical dollars needed to close the funding gap for children’s hospitals across the country.

It’s the perfect time of year to get cooking with heartwarming recipes from the Cornerstone Foundation’s Cooking with Cornerstone.

Cornerstone League has long supported international engagement with other credit unions and cultures around the world, and now to support this ongoing initiative we’ve launched a web page dedicated to sharing the good works and stories of credit union people from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, cybercriminals are targeting organizations that use popular cloud-based email services to conduct business email compromise scams.

As we hit the 18-month mark of the pandemic, life insurance is experiencing a bit of a paradox. According to the 2021 Insurance Barometer Study from Life Happens and LIMRA[i]:

Cornerstone League congratulates Tinker Federal Credit Union who has won the Desjardins Adult Financial Education Award, the Desjardins Youth Financial Education Award, and the Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service awards for the region.

After serving for 18 years on the Lending and Collections Council Executive Committee, Gary Parker is stepping down. But the committee, which steers the Southwest Lending and Collections Conference, wasn’t going to let Parker go without honoring his legacy in credit unions and on the council.

Oklahoma credit unions have come together to support the Children’s Hospital Foundation in Oklahoma City and the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis in Tulsa. Credit Unions for Kids – Oklahoma has been making yearly donations to the hospital since 1997 that has amounted $4 million.

Oct. 8, Greater Texas Credit Union held a grand opening celebration for its new free-standing, full-service branch at 242 N. Guadalupe Street in downtown San Marcos.

This month, Cornerstone League’s Leave a Legacy campaign highlights four trailblazers from Arkansas. See how they’ve advanced in their careers and expanded the reach of the credit union movement in their communities.

Welcome to our fifth installment of Leave a Legacy, the initiative that shines a spotlight on some of our movement’s most successful leaders.

Next Monday, Oct. 18, at 3:30 p.m. CT is the start of Cornerstone League’s 2021 Hike at Home—this year a virtual experience that offers an outstanding opportunity for credit union leaders to engage face-to-face with their lawmakers in the comfort of their own office.

How is your credit union celebrating International Credit Union Day with your members and your community?

The National Credit Union Administration has called upon credit unions across America to submit comments on digital assets by Oct. 27, 2021.

A group of credit unions is fighting back against an NCUA rule that will prevent credit unions from receiving the full benefits a program Congress designed to help banks and credit unions serve more minorities.

Federally insured credit unions with both the minority depository institution and low-income designations are eligible to apply for the National Credit Union Administration’s MDI mentoring grants now through Oct. 29.

Ransomware developers and affiliates have been telling victims that they must pay the ransom or stolen data and internal company secrets would be publicly released. Unfortunately, six- and seven-figure demands have become routine among ransomware attacks.