Getting your remarks beamed to a potential 9 million New Yorkers and "then broadcast around the world" can be a little nerve-wracking for an Illinois credit union CEO.

"I certainly didn't want to make any mistakes," confessed Frank Padak, chairman of the Defense Credit Union Council and the main speaker at a DCUC-arranged Times Square advocacy promo before the NASDAQ opening bell ceremony last Wednesday.

Thankfully, he said, the NASDAQ staff  guiding Padak in an exchange studio "were very supportive and very helpful" as the president/CEO of the $760 million Scott CU of Collinsville, Ill., delivered a brief message in the 10-minute broadcast.

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