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Top-Performing Credit Unions: The Q1 2026 Leaders
The top-performing credit unions of Q1 2026 share one trait: no weak link across capital, earnings, liquidity, risk, growth and long-term stability.
TechnologyJuly 20, 2026 · 24 min read
Your Vendor Still Writes Code by Hand
A 25-person startup ships 8 production deploys a day with 99% AI-written code. If your core vendor's engineering team still operates the way it did in 2024, you're paying for a process that's already obsolete. Five questions to ask at your next vendor meeting.
If I could give every credit union technology leader one diagnostic question for their next vendor meeting, it would be this: How many times did you deploy to production last week?
Not last quarter. Not last sprint. Last week.
By the numbers
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