NEW YORK—A computer science student has scraped seven-million Venmo transactions to prove that users’ public activity can still be easily obtained, a year after a privacy researcher downloaded hundreds of millions of Venmo transactions in a similar feat.
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CANTON, Ohio–Nearly $17,000 was taken from member accounts at Canton School Employees FCU as the result of ATM skimming theft.
WATERLOO, Iowa–Veridian Credit Union said it has begun offering its members free access to their credit reports and scores, as well as to report monitoring. The credit union has partnered with SavvyMoney to make the information available on its online and mobile banking platform.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti—The World Council of Credit Unions said it will assess the agricultural investment landscape in specific target zones in this country as part of a value chain assessment (VCA) being funded by USAID Haiti’s INVEST program.
PHOENIX–OneAZ Credit Union said it has expanded a program aimed at building Arizona’s economy with two new partnerships.
JACKSON, Miss.–The Mississippi Credit Union Association re-elected four members to its board of directors.
DES MOINES–GreenState Credit Union is purchasing seven branch locations of First American Bank in central Iowa. The deal includes $200 million in loans and $500-million in deposits, according to the credit union.
ARLINGTON, Va.—Areas on which the CFPB is focused, including overdraft services, third-party debt collection practices and remittances–are the primary focus of credit union attention in the latest edition of NAFCU'sEconomic & CU Monitor.
WASHINGTON—Lawmakers in the House have passed the fiscal year 2020 financial services and general government (FSGG) appropriations bill, which includes funding for credit union community programs.
WASHINGTON–The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it is extending the comment period on its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) relating to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).