Cathie Mahon

Nov 6, 2024 | cutimes.com | David Ritter |Patty Corkery |Cathie Mahon |Jody Bhagat

Credit/AdobeStock Increasingly, discussions at industry directors' conferences are gravitating towards the topic of mergers. Board members are curious about how their counterparts at other cooperatives are looking at mergers. The drastically changing competitive landscape has some boards doing a double take of their business model and wondering what it will take for their credit union to thrive, not just survive.

Nov 5, 2024 | cutimes.com | Cathie Mahon |Jody Bhagat |Ravi Srinivasan |Tim Blochowiak

Credit/AdobeStock On Nov. 1, Inclusiv and the Michigan Credit Union League (MCUL), convened credit union leaders from across Michigan to celebrate Inclusiv's $1.87 billion federal Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) award for credit unions and begin the intensive work to design clean energy lending programs that will catapult low-income and disadvantaged communities' efforts to create green jobs and businesses, and reduce energy cost burdens residents face.

Jul 8, 2024 | cutimes.com | Natasha Chilingerian |Pam Cohen |Cathie Mahon

Credit/AdobeStock. Two new credit unions have earned the Juntos Avanzamos designation: The Papillion, Neb.-based Cobalt Credit Union and the Bannockburn, Ill.-based Great Lakes Credit Union (GLCU). Natasha Chilingerian Natasha Chilingerian has been immersed in the credit union industry for over a decade.

Oct 25, 2023 | cutimes.com | Cathie Mahon

Source/Shutterstock On the 158th anniversary of the chartering of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, it’s important to highlight a key opportunity to drive federal investment in Black communities to address longstanding racial disparities caused by discriminatory energy, environmental and financial policy choices over the last century and a half: The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).

Jun 23, 2023 | cutimes.com | Cathie Mahon

Source: Shutterstock The time to create equitable environmental, energy and financial policy in the U.S. is now. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), a key component of the Inflation Reduction Act that will provide $27 billion in funding for clean energy projects and energy efficiency upgrades with a focus on “low-income and disadvantaged” communities, is not just a new capital source.