Credit Unions Innovate Successfully
Ideas alone won’t ensure your credit union keeps up with financial institutions’ rapidly changing environment. In today’s digital world, accessing the appropriate technology and analytics expertise means being able to execute innovation in a timely and cost-effective way.
MNP’s Credit Union team help you stay successful and competitive with key steps towards making informed choices on change in our whitepaper, Ideas Aren’t Enough: Does your Credit Union Practice Executable Innovation?
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Learn how your organization can take meaningful steps forward and innovate.
Insights
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Confidence
September 29, 2025
With the introduction of Bill C-2 and FINTRAC’s amped up enforcement, reporting entities face sweeping changes to anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.
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Performance
September 08, 2025
Discover how Canadian credit unions can leverage government funding to accelerate digital modernization, AI adoption, Open Banking, and cyber security innovation.
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Confidence
November 30, 2020
How credit unions can use their cooperative values as a springboard to greater relevance in a rapidly changing banking industry.
Contact Our Credit Unions Team
Annette Bester CPA, CA, CIA, ICD.D
Partner, National Credit Union Leader
Annette Bester, CPA, CA, is MNP’s National Credit Union Leader and an Audit Risk Partner in MNP’s Saskatoon office. A trusted business advisor, Annette draws on two decades of experience working with credit unions and business clients, supporting them and helping them strengthen their leadership.
Annette helps provide the vision and strategy steering MNP’s Credit Union Services group — one of Canada’s largest — to provide accounting, tax and advisory services to more than 135 Canadian credit unions.
Annette provides expert advice on technical accounting and business issues, helping ensure clients’ financials remain strong and compliant with reporting requirements.
She has provided audit, review and business consulting services to ownermanaged businesses in diverse industries. Annette’s experience has led to her exceptional understanding of credit unions and the members they serve. To further support the credit union sector, she facilitated a strategic partnership between MNP and Conexus Credit Union developing webinars on strengthening business acumen.
Annette obtained her Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours) from the University of Saskatchewan in 1999. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2002. As a Saskatchewan Capital Network board member, Annette is working to enhance Saskatchewan’s start-up ecosystem by connecting investmentready companies to investors.