Credit unions should immediately evaluate their credit reporting practices, find ways to get better breach data and prepare for a spike in fraud in the wake of Equifax’s enormous data breach, two experts have warned. The Equifax breach, announced Sept. 7,...
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Irma’s Aftermath Continues to Take Toll on Florida CUs
The aftermath of Hurricane Irma continued to take its toll on Florida’s credit unions, employees and members as they headed into the weekend with no power or running water, the League of Southeastern Credit Unions reported Friday. The greatest challenge for the...
Democrats Press DeVos to Renew Cooperation With CFPB
Calling the CFPB a crucial watchdog of student loan servicers, some 39 congressional Democrats are pressing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to again share servicer information with the consumer agency. “Contrary to the department’s assertion, Congress has...
Private Sector Innovation, Not Government, Should Drive ID Protection: Mnuchin
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called out private sector innovation, government support, public-private partnerships and decentralization such as the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace when speaking about authentication inadequacies,...
A Blueprint: How to Win Big on Advocacy
What does modern-day advocacy look like? For certain, it’s still pounding the pavement of Capitol Hill, pressing the flesh, putting in face time with your members of Congress. In my time serving in office, the stories that struck me the most were always those I...
Two Storms, a Data Breach and Some Dreamers Walk Into a Bar
There are times in the credit union industry when it’s just busy – I’m talking wicked busy. The kind of all-hands-on-deck busy when so much is happening at once that you even dream about work and the storms, politics, housing markets and zombies....

