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It was over two years ago that Chase Neinken was on the podcast talking up Chimney, a fintech focused on delivering cool, fun calculators to credit unions.

Neinken is back and here’s the reason: in fall 2023 Chimney won “best in show” at Finovate and that’s because it debuted Chimney Home, a new tool for credit unions that shows a credit union member today’s value of their home and also lets an institution deliver personalized offers to members.

Admit it, you know how addictive the tools for telling you your home’s value are. When was the last time you checked Zillow? I’ll confess: in my case it was yesterday.

What homeowner doesn’t do this often?

The Chimney kicker of course is enabling the FI that hosts Chimney Home to deliver targeted offers to the member, not the generic stuff sent to everybody, but offers that reflect how much equity this member actually has.

How cool is that?

Neinken tells all about it on the show and he also updates us on Chimney’s suite of calculators and wouldn’t you rather your members use calculators on your site, not BankRate?

In the show Neinken refers to a Chimney study of how its calculators actually perform. Here’s a link to that report.

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Scrolling through LinkedIn, I happened upon this post on Seth Brickman’s page: “I am excited to announce that I am now the President, Ranqx and can’t wait to help credit unions help small businesses and change communities for the better.”

Stop presses. Brickman, longtime listeners to this podcast well know, had been CEO of QCash, an innovative service birthed at WSECU and which had been sold to Alloya, a bit over a year ago.

What was up with Brickman? On LinkedIn he also posted a Ranqx press release that quotes him saying this: “Small businesses make up almost half the workforce, half of the US commercial revenue and over 60% of net new jobs. The ability to help small businesses get access to the capital they need in a fully digital way with each credit union’s own underwriting criteria in under 5 min (as opposed to 1-2 weeks) will be a game changer for communities nationwide and bring businesses back into the credit union. Any time we can drive deposits and impact communities at the same time, we are doing good things for the industry.”

We had to book him on the show.

Here’s the core Ranqx selling proposition: its technology can let a credit union process a loan app from a small business in perhaps five minutes as opposed to the two weeks it might take a human employee to do the same work.

Oh, consider that maybe 70% of small business loan apps are declined by credit unions. And each of those applications consumed two weeks or more of human labor.

Bring on the machines!

Brickman knows that most credit unions are struggling to bring in small business members. And he believes the Ranqx tools - white labeled - will enable credit unions to more successfully attract small business members.

In the show he also notes that Ranqx is already a CUSO, it has credit union investors but is looking for more. He also says he soon will be looking to hire sales people - email him here.

Give the guy a break, too. We talked on his fourth day at Ranqx.

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You're a credit union c-suiter and you dream about what good you could do if only you had more capital.

Don't just but lottery tickets!

Explore a sale-leaseback of the credit union's headquarters and branches.

This is explored in depth in episode 241 where Ed Lopes and Steve Eimert of CU Real Estate Solutions tell the nitty gritty.

Oh, and my own personal credit union, Affinity in New Jersey, sold its HQ for $50 million-plus. I applaud that decision.

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