Enrichment Federal Credit Union has become the first credit union to roll out a new technology that allows members to manage accounts via voice-controlled smart speakers. Members of the Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based credit union will be able to move money between...
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Email a Pervasive Threat With 20% Fraudulent
One in five emails were from unauthorized senders — meaning those emails were almost certainly fraudulent, according to research from San Francisco-based Email Authentication as a Service provider ValiMail. The research also indicated large financial services...
5 Things to Know About the NAIC’s New Cybersecurity Model Law
In a year punctuated by high-profile, costly information-security breaches, at least one headline served as a reminder that people — not machines, software, programming or algorithms — are often the weakest link when it comes to...
Confident Investors, Millennials Welcome Financial Wellness Programs
Many millennials are perfectly happy making their own investment decisions, but that doesn’t mean they’re discounting professional financial help. That’s according to Schwab Retirement Plan Services, which finds in a survey that 64% of...
Cleveland Fed Removes Report on Marketplace Lending to Clarify
A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland that slammed the peer-to-peer lending industry has been taken offline for clarification after researchers received inquiries about their methodology. The authors of the Nov. 9 report “have received several...
FIs Hit by $30 Million Mortgage Fraud Scheme
A New Jersey attorney and a real estate agent were charged with allegedly running a massive mortgage fraud scheme that caused more than $30 million in losses for at least five financial institutions, according to a criminal complaint filed last week in U.S. District...

