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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How financial institutions can stay safe and secure online

Abrigo

First held in 2004 The history of Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is a special month for cybersecurity enthusiasts. Launched to provide resources Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched in 2004 by the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) and the U.S.

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Giving The Gift Of A Good Read – On Subscription

PYMNTS

Avid social media users know that soon, the annual wave of posts about Jólabókaflóð will start appearing on Facebook timelines, Instagram stories and Twitter feeds. You probably have seen a social media meme referring to its translated name: Yule Book Flood, a tradition of Icelandic Christmas.

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Shopify’s Grand Retail Experiment

PYMNTS

While the shift to the online space is often seen as the great game-changer in retail, Loren Padelford, vice president and general manager of Shopify Plus , said that the change is actually to something more fundamental. Social media as a channel has recently become the most talked about. How do you sell on Facebook?

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Facebook’s Content Conundrum

PYMNTS

Over the last several weeks, the social network has endured back-to-back leaks of internal documents relating to its content screening processes and ad targeting practices that have managed to put the firm back on its heels seesawing between explaining itself and apologizing. Facebook’s critics — like Jennifer King, a Ph.D.

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The Kaepernick Controversy And Nike’s High-Risk Strategy

PYMNTS

With 12 words, one photo and a tweet, Nike has managed to capture the news cycle this week – and much of the market’s interest. For an example of a miss in the age of social media, there is Nationwide’s infamous Super Bowl commercial of 2015. That was not quite the point the nation took from the ad.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

To you, manage your interest rate risk. percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. My lesson learned to the regulators, read your past lessons learned. This crisis hatched the more sophisticated ALCO tools we have today.

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Is Bridal Retail Ready For Digital Disruption?

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Crew opened the door on this with its bridal line in 2004 — and eventual store connect boutiques and eCommerce shops — of late the marketplace has gotten much more active with H&M, ModCloth, Amazon and ASOS all pushing their cheaper, faster and “off-the rack” wedding dress into the marketplace. “It

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