Small Credit Unions & Membership Growth

Sarah Snell Cooke stops by CUbroadcast to discuss the state of the credit union industry.

By Michael Lawson | February 12, 2015 at 06:52 AM

Mike Lawson of CUbroadcast sat down with CU Times Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Sarah Snell Cooke to discuss her take on small credit unions and what's really going on with credit union membership growth.

Read Cooke's CU Times Feb. 4 column, Let 2015 Be the Year of Seed Sowing, which sparked a debate and this interview.

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