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

Abrigo

Ideas for educating and promoting cybersecurity in October Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an opportunity for banks and credit unions to promote online safety and take steps to reduce cyber risks. First held in 2004 The history of Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is a special month for cybersecurity enthusiasts.

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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. That has created a whole technology cycle just to support that. In the last five years, it’s flipped.

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FinovateSpring 2017 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

With the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still in recovery there has not been great investment in mortgage technology. These folks are may be one of the companies that bring 21st Century technology to the industry. They invested in new technology and are promoting the heck out of it. Omnichannel campaigns online.

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Frictionless Payments Take Center Stage at Money 20/20

Gonzobanker

This year’s Money 20/20 event in Las Vegas drew a massive attendance with 11,000 individuals, 4,500 companies, tons of new technology, and a mind-blowing expanse of collective brain power. My colleague Ryan Rackley summed it up perfectly when he referred to social media as the “new tattoo.”. Keep your eyes on this innovator.

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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

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. I – like many – will use technology to move my money but keep my account open – costing the bank money. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect. Zynga and OMGPOP. Date: March 21, 2012.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

Coda Automotive sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in May 2013, and announced it was restructuring its business as a battery technology company. Coda’s unsold vehicles were later acquired by Mullen Technologies, an electric vehicle company based in California. In 2012, Nasty Gal was named “Fastest Growing Retailer” by Inc.

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