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Future of Payments - Square

Feb. 10, 2010

By Brad Garland

If you haven't heard by now, there's a new application being launched by Jack Dorsey, who originally founded Twitter, called Square. It's an iPhone based payments app that allows ...

2009 Bank Failures Visualized

Feb. 10, 2010

By Brad Garland

I'm completely a visual type of person. I really enjoyed this infographic data from Focus.com. Original post here.

Finance firms to spend bilions on risk management - survey

Feb. 8, 2010

By admin

08 February, 2010 - 10:59 Finance firms to spend bilions on risk management - survey The top 100 financial institutions will spend over $100 billion a year implementing risk ...

Chairman-Elect Jeff Austin III to testify on Condition of Financial Institutions today

Jan. 21, 2010

By admin

Senator Dodd seems to be considering dropping his committee's plans to create a standalone Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But the focus will continue on strengthening ...

Insights | Good Boards of Directors = Good IT?

Jan. 15, 2010

By Brad Garland

This is a series of posts from The Garland Group consultants from the road. Due to our wide range of clients, trends emerge and we want to share those insights with you. This bit ...

Find how many subnets? OMG! How?

Jan. 13, 2010

By Henry

As technology folks, we like to get technical (read: geeky) from time to time. If you're like us, this is the post for you. WARNING: Heavy technical speak ahead. Subnetting is the ...

Back to the Books: 2010 is the Year for New Skills, Certifications

Dec. 28, 2009

By admin

Back to the Books: 2010 is the Year for New Skills, Certifications Career Trends Survey Taps Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Fraud/Forensics as Growth Areas Across Industries What ...

Phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 for RiskKey

Dec. 21, 2009

By Brad Garland

This is mainly a formality post but it was a necessary one that we thought we needed to make. As of December 31st, 2009, we will officially be ended support for Microsoft's ...

Nation & World | McCain, Cantwell sponsor bank bill | Seattle Times Newspaper

Dec. 17, 2009

By admin

Originally published December 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM | Page modified December 17, 2009 at 9:58 PM McCain, Cantwell sponsor bank bill Two senators, including Washington state Democrat ...

Merry Christmas from the Garland Group

Dec. 17, 2009

By Brad Garland

We got creative once again for our Christmas video and hope you enjoy us being a little silly! Kudos needs to go to Roz Garland for coming up with the words (she even rhymed ...

Observations from BarcampBank Chicago

Dec. 14, 2009

By Brad Garland

Last Friday, I attended my fourth BarcampBank. It was in a suburban area of Chicago (Naperville) and the event was located at the Illnois Credit Union League offices. It is always ...

Compliance as Security: The Root of Insanity

Dec. 13, 2009

By admin

December 08, 2009 — CSO — There is an ever-increasing pressure for security executives to be a champion of compliance within their respective organizations. Given that there seem ...

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Future of Payments - Square

2009 Bank Failures Visualized

Finance firms to spend bilions on risk management - survey

Chairman-Elect Jeff Austin III to testify on Condition of Financial Institutions today

Insights | Good Boards of Directors = Good IT?

Find how many subnets? OMG! How?

Back to the Books: 2010 is the Year for New Skills, Certifications

Phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 for RiskKey

Nation & World | McCain, Cantwell sponsor bank bill | Seattle Times Newspaper

Merry Christmas from the Garland Group

Observations from BarcampBank Chicago

Compliance as Security: The Root of Insanity

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