Archive for the ‘In the news’ Category
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
The Financial Times published an article today, "Wal-mart to open 1,000 Money Centers", providing some details into the major retail chains entry into the financial services market. Although WalMart dropped their ILC plans in March 2007, they've decided to utilize pre-paid money cards to get into their customers wallets. WalMart ...
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
In the wake of the Priority One mistake (here and here) it looks like Jax Federal Credit Union had a little mistake as well. It seems that they had a little problem with their printing vendor and the transmission of statements on their site wasn't encrypted. Google managed to index ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Unfortunately for Priority One CU, they managed to print the account number and the social security number on the election ballot envelope of Steve Bass, a blogger for PC World, as well as the rest of their membership. Here's Steve's article (on PC World).
Priority One has an opportunity here.The phrase ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
The US House Financial Services Committee introduced a bill today that will ban commercial companies from owning a bank. Specifically, it bans them from owning an industrial loan company. The bill was co-sponsored by both the top Democrat and Republican in the committee.
It'll be interesting to see how this one ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Polly LaBarre, co-author of Mavericks at Work, was interviewed by Guy Kawasaki over at FutureLab.
Polly LaBarre and Bill Taylor (co-founder of Fast Company) wrote the book and the interview can be found here.
Read the book!!!
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