DataSeers founder and CEO Adwait Joshi cut the ribbon on a new Alpharetta office Jan. 24 with the help of Mayor Jim Gilvin. In much the same way, he plans to inaugurate an office in Mumbai, India, in early February. After ringing in the new year, metro Atlanta-based DataSeers is wasting no time getting started on its resolutions. Just in the last two months, it has checked off two major milestones: graduating from the Tech Alpharetta incubator in December, followed by gaining recognition in January as one of the Technology Association of Georgia’s 40 most innovative firms. But even at this early and hectic stage, its next big move is expanding its footprint in Asia, despite that fact that it has just eight employees at home. The financial technology firm, which provides a reconciliation, analytics and fraud-prevention engine (FinanSeer) for mainly for banks and processors of prepaid payments, held a grand opening on a new 2,000-square-foot Alpharetta … [Read more...] about Alpharetta to Asia: Atlanta Fintech Firm DataSeers to Accelerate Growth With India Office
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Personal finance program shows students the path from rags to riches
View Comments A business-backed financial literacy program teaches 30,000 students - now including Portland Community College students - finance basics. Financial Beginnings, a financial literacy organization that recently expanded to include Portland Community College students like him, became one of his successes since growing sober and rebuilding his life, Prescott said. "It changed my whole point of view," Prescott said. His newfound knowledge in the financial system even enabled him to travel abroad to Bolivia as part of his sociology program. Financial Beginnings, founded in 2005, is a program striving to solve financial illiteracy in Oregon and Washington. Kate Benedict, executive director of the program, said it serves almost 30,000 students in all grade levels annually. In hopes of broadening its reach, the organization partnered with Portland Community College Cascade last year and launched a new program: the Student Academy for Financial Empowerment. The free program … [Read more...] about Personal finance program shows students the path from rags to riches
Education Is Key to Cary Kennedy’s Campaign. Is It Enough?
All four Democratic primary candidates say they want to put more money into public education. But Kennedy has made the issue the engine of her campaign.She has aligned herself specifically with the teachers unions and those largely opposed to education reform measures that emphasize standardized testing, the proliferation of charter schools, and the weakening of tenure protections. This position sets Kennedy apart from her primary opponents and at least the last four governors, three of them Democrats.She is calling for more school funding so that high school counselors don’t have caseloads of 400 kids each and the front office isn’t running out of paper. She’s calling for more support staff from paras to school psychologists. She’s calling, loudly, for higher pay so that teachers aren’t forced to choose between the schools they love, the students they have nurtured, the communities they call home and their own families’ well being. It doesn’t … [Read more...] about Education Is Key to Cary Kennedy’s Campaign. Is It Enough?
Skimmer fraud: How to protect your credit and debit cards at the ATM, gas pump
Kim Norvell Des Moines Register Published 10:10 p.m. UTC Jun 14, 2018 Consumers nationwide have had their bank account information stolen through credit card skimmers at alarming, record-breaking rates. Last year, 10 percent more debit cards were comprised at ATMs and merchant card readers than the year before, according to data from FICO. That's on top of a 70 percent increase in 2016. And it's happening here in central Iowa. West Des Moines police recently found a credit card skimmer installed at a QuikTrip. At least 15 people have come forward as skimmer victims in that case — and police expect to hear from more victims throughout the Des Moines metro. A credit card skimmer is a small device installed on ATMs or gas pumps that is used to steal customers' credit and debit card information. Most skimmers go undetected until a victim reports an issue to his or her banking institution or police. But there are some warning signs to look for. … [Read more...] about Skimmer fraud: How to protect your credit and debit cards at the ATM, gas pump
JPMorgan Chase to open consumer bank branches in D.C. area, hire 700
Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Subscribe Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader Business by Aaron Gregg by Aaron Gregg Email the author April 18 at 7:00 PM Email the author An artist’s rendering of a planned Chase Bank location at 1401 New York Ave., near McPherson Square in Washington. (Courtesy of JPMorgan Chase) JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest bank, is opening its first consumer banking branches in the D.C. area as part of an aggressive push to put brick-and-mortar branches in up to 20 new U.S. markets within the next five years, chief executive Jamie Dimon said Wednesday on CBS Evening News. The expansion will bring 70 commercial banking branches to the … [Read more...] about JPMorgan Chase to open consumer bank branches in D.C. area, hire 700