In a land war, an army needs both jeeps and tanks. On the financial services battlefield, the debit card was previously a jeep—useful, but not a powerful offensive weapon. Now new laws and regulations have shifted the battle, and aggressive CUs are turning their jeeps into a new breed of tanks.
Debit is flourishing at $1.2 billion Pen Air Federal Credit Union, Pensacola, Fla., because “we gave it a shot of steroids,” says David L. Tuyo II, CCE, formerly the CU’s interim CEO and now VP/consultant with Lending Solut…






