Jess Fongemie
Keeping you on the map in the evolution of money
As the competitive landscape shifts from traditional electronic transactions to modern digital engagement, and money merges with the...
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Jess Fongemie
- Aug 12, 2022
- 4 min
Local FI’s ‘Trade Deadline’
If you’re a sports fan, you may know that Major League Baseball’s trade deadline just passed. Each season as the deadline approaches,...
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Jess Fongemie
- Aug 4, 2022
- 4 min
Innovation doesn't sleep, and neither should your strategy!
While attention is diverted by the cost of cash at the Fed window, a truly existential threat remains closer to home. Peril is lurking at...
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Jess Fongemie
- Jul 26, 2022
- 6 min
As the economy retrenches, will consumers’ expectations for innovation & digital services recede too
In a word: No! Alternative: ((Don’t hold your breath!)) or.. ((Not damn likely!) It’s no secret, our industry is being forced to innovate...
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Jess Fongemie
- Jun 23, 2022
- 5 min
Remaining Relevant to the Core in the Revolution of Currency & Community
What do core data, core processing, your basic business operations, and your strategic plan have to do with digital currency and...
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Jess Fongemie
- Jun 9, 2022
- 5 min
The Digital Revolution of Money has Arrived
“You’ve Got Mail.” Do you remember when electronic mail (email) became mainstream? In the 1990’s email was a novelty. Almost immediately,...
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Jess Fongemie
- Mar 24, 2022
- 5 min
Capitalizing on Currency in your Community
Money is morphing and financial literacy now requires an increased understanding of the revolutionary, rapidly evolving terms and...
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Jess Fongemie
- Jan 6, 2022
- 4 min
Metaverse—You’ve heard the word lately. What does it mean?
Is it just another tech buzzword? Marketing jargon? A new dimension of reality? Is metaverse relevant to community FIs? “The money...
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Jess Fongemie
- Dec 14, 2021
- 4 min
Old Practice versus Next Practice
Relationship Building in the Digital Age As you’ve tuned into your favorite TV show, streaming service, or sports game recently, have you...
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dalandcuso
- Nov 17, 2021
- 5 min
The Cryptocurrency Moment and Your Community FI
Is your community financial institution in the dollar business, or the money business? We’re curious, do you have a feverish case of...
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Jess Fongemie
- Oct 27, 2021
- 3 min
Relevance Gets a Lift. How DaLand CUSO tackles complexity & community connection
As you look forward to strategic initiatives and operational changes for your organization in 2022, does it feel like you are coming off...
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Jess Fongemie
- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
Modern Strategy Planning & the Relevance Equation
Thanks to companies like Amazon and Venmo, delightful, frictionless consumer experiences are well-known and well-loved. These Big-Tech...
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dalandcuso
- Aug 11, 2020
- 1 min
Your Community FI and the Digital Currency (Community) Renaissance
"Ours is a moment where twin disasters have converged: Aging economic policies have been compounded by a public health calamity". Matthew...
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Tommy Hawkins - DaLand
- Jul 24, 2020
- 1 min
COVID: Digital Currency Going Mainstream?
We've been talking about the fact that Money is Morphing for years. We've known that the fringe movement of cryptocurrency would become...
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Tommy Hawkins - DaLand
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
Strategy, Trash Talking, and the Pursuit of Excellence
In his recent article, Reopening America, Jon Ungerland explores the conflation of the strategic and the operational. “If your financial...
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JD Dykes - DaLand
- Apr 22, 2020
- 2 min
COVID: How Many Small Businesses Could $10 Billion Save?
If you’ve read some of our other postings, one of DaLand’s top concerns is ensuring that credit unions occupy a place of relevance that...
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JD Dykes - DaLand
- Apr 3, 2020
- 4 min
Feast and Famine: The Historical Mission of the CU and Imperative of Relevance
There’s no doubt that the economy has served up a feast of growth, development, and productivity in recent years. At the tail end of 2019...
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Tommy Hawkins - DaLand
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
The Manufactured Recession
I read a disquieting article today posted in The Hill called Welcome to the Fake Recession, which assumes that life will "go back to...
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Tommy Hawkins - DaLand
- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
Relevance Strategies in 'The New Normal': A Generational Opportunity for Local FIs
Businesses large and small are reacting to the instant, crippling loss of revenue with sweeping layoffs. That’s why (unsurprisingly) last...
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Jon Ungerland - CIO, DaLand
- Mar 24, 2020
- 5 min
Couple Trillion Reasons to Get Serious about Digital Currency and Control of Community/Consumer Data
So, you woke up to the news of the Coronavirus Stimulus Package, and you find yourself in one of four camps: (1) shocked by the news of...
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