McConnell files cloture on Calabria nomination to lead FHFA
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture today on the nomination of Mark Calabria to serve as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). This sets up a ...
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10-month breach leads to 2M cards on cybercrime site
Two million credit and debit card numbers were being sold online following a data breach affecting Earl Enterprises, the parent company of Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo and other ...
HR Answers: Help your employees find purpose at work
Does “purpose” matter? For centuries, humans have pondered “meaning and purpose”—what it means to live, and perhaps a bit more recently, to work. In 2019, the organizational musings on ...
Three top takeaways from CUNA GAC
I always come away from the CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) with several good ideas. And this year I had more company than usual, as the more than 5,200 ...
New York man attempts to steal more than $1.1 million from PenFed
New York and federal authorities allege a Brooklyn man attempted to steal more than $1.1 million from the $24 billion Pentagon Federal Credit Union in McLean, Va., by using ...
FIRE can keep you from getting mired in ‘innovation theatre’
I’ve written before about the false promise of innovation theatre— getting caught up in activities that look like innovation, but don’t really add value. I have said that ...
Card cracking – Not all it’s cracked up to be, and your members are the target
“Hey, want to make some quick cash? Hit me up @CardCrackingFraudster121! Must have a bank account.” While it may seem an obvious scam to some, millions of people are falling ...
5 powerful sales statistics your financial institution probably isn’t using
With the shift of consumers from brick-and-mortar to the online banking market, we have found that best practices for digital selling are more important that ever. Here are some useful ...