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Worried About Digital Fraud Now? Just Wait For The Implants.

PYMNTS

Consider the Wisconsin workers whose employer offered them the chance to embed chips to buy snacks, gain access to physical spaces and computers and other tasks. Those devices are not the microchips from those programs in Wisconsin and Sweden — nor, of course, the chips implanted into pets. As a research report released on Monday (Oct.

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Keeping On-Campus Credit Unions Competitive

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Meanwhile, the customer-is-always-right philosophies can make staff too accommodating — to the extent of possibly overlooking signs of fraud. Under the collaboration, PenFed members can receive residual-based financing for vehicles, with AFG managing the vehicle turn-in and value-risk processing. Around the Credit Union World.

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WCCU Taps PSCU For Credit Card Processing Support, Services

PYMNTS

WCCU, which is based in Wisconsin, tapped PSCU after a comprehensive review process. “We Last year, PSCU prevented more than $277 million in would-be fraud, a 30 percent increase over 2018. Throughout the entire review process, we felt like PSCU’s staff listened to our specific needs to provide a consultative path forward.

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FBI Probing Hack Of US Electricity Providers

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Executives of Wisconsin Rapids Water Works and Lighting Commission said an FBI agent contacted the company in early-October about being a potential target earlier in the year. “It Attackers briefly identified intended targets on an exposed server in Hong Kong. We never got compromised, and never saw the phishing emails,” he said.

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Retail banking trends to look out for in 2023

Independent Banker

It has introduced a plethora of new retail banking initiatives in the past couple of years, including online account opening for anyone in the state of Wisconsin. This began with its launch of Personal Finance, a software program that helps customers budget, track spending and manage savings goals. “We One such bank is $1.7

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15 Minutes With—Kaarin

Independent Banker

Kaarin Long stops by a local manufacturer while getting to know customers as Investors Community Bank’s cash management relationship manager. Cash Management Relationship Manager. Cash management has diversified what a bank’s relationship is with a business. Photo by Mike Roemer. Kaarin Long.

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Capstone Conference

Independent Banker

Wisconsin bank uses LEAD FWD Summit as a development resource. Eleven employees—a mix of loan officers, underwriters and servicers; branch, operations and IT managers; and treasury services and human resources personnel—are going this month. Consumers and Their New Role in Fraud Mitigation,” by Scott Bright, FIS. By Tim Cook.