CONTINUOUS LEARNING.
INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT.
Household pets have been covering their ears. During the first calendar quarter, once reticent finance executives, and finance-engaged CEOs, of B.C. and ON credit unions may have been raging expletives. It’s been a frustrating, challenging and unfamiliar period. Financial instruments once wholly alien to small Canadian credit unions, perhaps large ones too, are now commonplace.
Financial regulation is not national security. Edward Snowden alleged that 'collect it all' was a mantra of the US National Security Agency. But this seems rather heavy-handed for regulatory oversight of provincial credit unions. As a self-declared 'data-driven regulator', BC Financial Services Authority appears intent on data collection regardless of prudential supervisory risk or industry impact.
CUDIC has outgrown legacy legislation and FICOM’s shadow. CUDIC is responsible for deposit insurance of a C$77 billion industry that is used by almost half of British Columbians. Larger than most Canadian credit unions then it warrants full-time, permanent executive leadership. Larger than most B.C. Crown Corporations then it deserves independent, empowered and accountable governance oversight.
