CHICAGO — Massive change vs. measured change was the topic of debate Thursday morning in a final-day session at CO-OP Financial Services' THINK 13 conference.

The team of executives arguing for massive change, including Patrick Basler, president of First Financial Credit Union in Chicago; industry attorney Michael Bell of Detroit; and Sarah Snell Cooke, publisher and editor-in-chief at Credit Union Times, won the debate by 57% to 43%, according to audience polling taken during the event.

The massive change team argued that credit unions represented massive change from their very beginnings and have continued that as a core principle since.

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