Archive for September, 2008
Take down by the FDIC
TDECU‘s Safe & Sound page has been killed by the FDIC. Here is a link to the cached page and the site now redirects to their normal site. I can see how this may be a sensitive topic to some, but regardless, it is good to discuss it and any implications it may bring for [...]
Read moreWelcome to communism
We are seeing our free market capitalism disappear before our eyes. SEC bans short-selling Fed takes control of AIG Treasury set to bail out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac The founding ideals of our country are so closely tied to the basic premise of credit unions (member-owned, democratically controlled) that I now can see how [...]
Read moreMore on OpenID
I was just reading an article in Information Week talking more about OpenID and how it has been starting to catch on and is being implemented on mainstream sites, like MySpace. As quickly as they praise it, it rapidly turns around into how many sites enable the use of their OpenID, but they don’t accept [...]
Read moreWhen Google/Microsoft/BofA/Wamu enters your market
Bank of America is still building out branches and their ATM structure like crazy. Wamu is every where. We even have super tough competition coming in from CU’s that historically have been in other cities and are 5 times our size. What is a credit union to do? Google just stepped into the browser marketplace [...]
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