When NuMark Credit Union set out to consolidate more than a dozen fragmented data systems into a unified data lakehouse, the technology decisions were only part of the challenge. The harder questions involved governance, member data privacy, regulatory exposure, and how to build a business-led data culture before the first dashboard goes live.

NuMark’s CEO shares the milestones of that journey firsthand. A senior banking privacy attorney frames what institutions must address legally and structurally from day one. Together, they answer the question every community financial institution is asking: where do we actually begin?