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TRENDING: How Credit Unions Give Digital The Personal Touch

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CUs are facing pressure on the regulatory side as well, with banking advocacy organizations like the American Bankers Association (ABA) pressuring federal regulators to block rule changes that would help CUs compete with large banks. Deep Dive: How CUs Leverage Social Media. percent and total deposits by 6.9 About the Tracker.

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The ICBA 22/23 executive committee is all in

Independent Banker

Executive committee members tell us what advocacy issues they’ll be focused on during their terms, while board members share their words of wisdom for up-and-coming community bankers: themselves. To sum it up, these leaders are all in and all heart for community banking. We are not Wall Street banks—we are community banks.

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GonzoBanker Awards 2017

Gonzobanker

Heavy-handed regulators. Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. FinTech threats and distractions.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. We are in awe. Seriously in awe.

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FTC Investigates Facebook’s Privacy Practices

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President Donald Trump, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into the social media platform’s privacy practices, the agency said in a statement. As news swirls that Cambridge Analytica may have improperly collected user data from Facebook that was reportedly used to help elect U.S.

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Why Facebook’s Business Model Isn’t Its Biggest Problem

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Facebook’s reputation-killer is not a nobleman in drag, but instead a digital strategic communications firm specializing in politics and elections called Cambridge Analytica. That post, theoretically, was supposed to calm fears that Facebook had been hacked, and to reassure users, investors and regulators that things were fine.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congressional Panel

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The social media company said it would either be sending Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer, or Chris Cox, chief product officer, both of which Facebook said would be “well-placed” to answer questions on the matter. Last month, Zuckerberg declined to testify before the British Parliament. lawmakers in person.

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