Congress should consider giving the NCUA more flexibility to write rules to provide regulatory relief and allow credit unions to offer more services, Acting NCUA Chairman J. Mark McWatters told the Senate Banking Committee Thursday. And he told the committee that he...
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Tennessee CU CEO Retires, New CEO Named
The board of directors for the $51.2 million TNConnect Credit Union in Knoxville, Tenn., announced Tuesday that its president/CEO, Linda Childs (pictured at left), will retire Aug. 31. Her successor will be Martin Bradley (pictured below), the credit union’s...
3 Trends Driving Retirement Planning in the ‘New Normal’
Advisors’ most successful clients learned their formative investing lessons in the late 20th century—a “perfect storm” of favorable demographics and economic trends. But the past decade revealed starkly different conditions. This...
InsurTech Startup Gets Boost for Smartphone-Only Policies
Sure, one of the latest entrants into the "insure-a-thing" vertical, announced this week that it raised $8 million in Series A funding, which the New York City- and Los Angeles-based InsurTech startup intends to use to grow its product and marketing outreach. Run...
5 Best & Worst States for Keeping More Retirement Income
When you’re looking for a potential retirement spot, keep taxes high on the criteria—since whether a state has its own income tax, and if so what it taxes, can have a big impact on how much money you’ll have left to spend after April 15 has...
Most Websites Are No Match for a Bot Attack: Study
A new study developed by Distil Networks and the Online Trust Alliance revealed 95% of top websites across different verticals, including financial services, are no match against advanced persistent and damaging bots. The survey found that while an average of 16% of...

