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FICO's National "Score A Better Future" Credit Education Program Reaches Milestone

FICO

When we launched FICO’s “Score A Better Future” program in October 2018, our main goal was to continue to expand consumer credit access through financial education. We recently announced our milestone 15th financial education event of this national program and we couldn’t be prouder of how much the program expanded in the last two years.

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Federal banking agencies encourage Bank Secrecy Act resource sharing

CFPB Monitor

regulatory agencies—the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the U.S. The Statement elaborates on three, non-exhaustive examples of appropriate resources to share. Patriot Act.)

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Imposter Scams Top FTC’s List of 2018 Consumer Complaints

CFPB Monitor

The FTC has issued its 2018 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book. For 2018, imposter scams top the list of reported complaint categories, accounting for 18% of the almost 3 million consumer reports summarized in the Data Book. The report summarizes consumer complaints stored in the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database.

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Goldman Invests $40M In LeanTaaS Healthcare Software Firm

PYMNTS

Founded in 2010 by Mohan Giridharadas, LeanTaaS is a predictive analytics company that taps data science to improve healthcare provider performance, using cloud-based solutions to solve problems like resource utilization. trillion in 2018. New hires have topped 85 people in the last 10 months.

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Using Communication To Make Your Brand Unforgettable in 2018

PYMNTS

Customers Expect More Consider these statistics from the National Federation of Independent Business regarding what customers have come to expect in terms of service across channels: When communicating via social media, 57% of customers expect a response within thirty minutes, regardless of the time of day.

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Continuous Financial Education for Women Small Business Owners

FICO

In June, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussing credit access and financial education for women small business owners at the National Association of Women Business Owners ( NAWBO ) Advocacy Day events in DC. To learn more about SABF and to access financial management education resources and tools, visit www.fico.com/sabf.

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The Need for a FinCEN Database

Abrigo

The US is at a disadvantage without a national beneficial ownership registry. . This was long before the United States passed legislation in 2018 to unveil the secrecy of legal entity ownership. Is a national beneficial ownership database in the works? The importance of CDD and EDD around beneficial ownership.