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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. You might also like this whitepaper: "Protecting banking customers starts with you." But how did Cybersecurity Awareness Month start?

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New Facebook Shops Feature Streamlines Social Commerce

PYMNTS

To enable businesses to more easily list their merchandise on its social media platforms, Facebook has unveiled Facebook Shops. The social media company had allowed companies to list items on Instagram and Facebook in the past. That of course means there’ll be higher conversions and more sales for small businesses.”

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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

PYMNTS

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised. Back in the U.S.,

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Two Perficient Colleagues Quoted in Forrester Report on Emerging Insurance Technologies

Perficient

According to Forrester, critical event intelligence is defined as an “Intelligence that uses real-time data from sources such as social media, blogs, news feeds, online forums, IP addresses, latitude and longitude, and device GPS to assess potential threats from location-specific events, especially for physical risk.”

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Prevent pig butchering scams: Safeguarding against investment fraud

Abrigo

A scam usually begins with online contact via social media or dating apps. Scammers build up a victim’s trust and gain access to their online account information, sometimes “fattening the pig” by soliciting more investment in cryptocurrency before “slaughtering the pig” and stealing the cryptocurrency.

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Closing the Social Media Gap

William Mills

Social media is no longer the shiny new toy in the PR and marketing toy box. Today, financial providers and FinTech firms alike know they must integrate social media into their communications strategies. For many FinTech companies, social media serves primarily as a source for leads.

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How to Write a Social Media Policy for Your Financial Institution

Long Lasting Ideas

The expansion of social media in the workplace and for personal use has made it vital for financial institutions to include a specific social media policy within its policies and procedures. 8 Steps to Create Your Social Media Policy. IBM Social Computing Guidelines. Social Media Policy Database.