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Analyzing #bigdata to fight #fraud

by. Brandon Bogler Data analytics is dramatically changing fraud detection with advanced analytic solutions that are powerful and fast enough to detect fraud in real time and proactively identify risks. Fraud is an adaptive crime, [...]

The Heartbleed vulnerability

The Heartbleed vulnerability

What is the Heartbleed Bug?  And why is this recently discovered software flaw triggering so many alarm bells? Let me begin by explaining that the Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL [...]

The value of a credit union membership

Credit unions can prove their worth by sending members statements that summarize the savings they enjoy vs. banking at other financial institutions. By Bryan Ochalla Credit unions have a big problem. According to Tony Rizzo, [...]

Panel proposes limiting credit union oversight powers

by. Henry Meier Is NCUA and, by extension, the credit union industry important enough to have a seat at the table when it comes to deciding issues that impact the financial structure of the Country?  [...]

Hating on your selfie

Hating on your selfie

I am presuming that since you are reading this you are a credit union employee. Whether your title is Board Member, CEO or teller, I bet you have a distorted sense of how members actually [...]

Cummins Allison CUNA Guest Blog Post

by. Bob Gibson How Can Credit Unions Leverage Technology To Maintain A Profitable Member-Centric Branch? Despite the growing popularity of digital banking services, in-store branch visits are still an important element to member engagement and [...]

What is the OGO replicator?

by. Kirk Drake Let’s face it.  Sometimes a server just dies.  No warning. No whimpers.  Just cold hard silence.  You push power button – nothing.  You shake it. Nothing.  The question then is “do I [...]

The good, the bad and the ugly

by. Henry Meier The Good Good things come to those who wait. . .and wait. . .and wait.  Nearly four years after deciding not to appeal federal court rulings holding that the IRS wrongly tried to tax [...]