According to an article on creditunions.com entitled Go the Last Mile in Internet Adoption and Utilization: Manage to the Psychology of the Offline Consumer, despite the fact that over 87 million people manage their finances online, more can still be done to win over the skeptics. The article provides ten steps aimed at decreasing fear in members who resist the advances in online money management due to security concerns.

The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has issued orders prohibiting the following individuals from participating in the affairs of any federally insured financial institution.

National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board Member Gigi Hyland addressed the D.C. Chapter of the Maryland and District of Columbia Credit Union Association’s first meeting of the year last week.

The Multiple Common Bond Expansion Report identifies the number of select group expansions approved, deferred and denied for federal credit unions. The report is presented in a year-to-date format and is updated monthly.

NCUA Chairman JoAnn Johnson announced today the appointment of Peter C. Barrett as Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman. Barrett will advise Chairman Johnson on a broad range of issues pertaining to the agency as well as help oversee the day to day operations.

The February 15, 2007, National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Board meeting agenda has been modified.

Personal information of 65,000 students, former students, and faculty members including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and, in some cases, credit card numbers leaked when documents were uploaded to a web site with wrong access permissions. A programming error on the school’s OnePass Web site, created files that made it possible for anyone to view.

The protocol was HTTP and the type of data was NPI (eg: customer data) Websense Content Protection Suite can prevent such leaks by preemptively blocking internal and external communications, such as emails and web posts, that include confidential information.

Content Protection Suite can also protect organizations, such as the New York Department of State, against leaks from the outside when used in reverse proxy mode to prevent unauthorized access to web pages that contain such information. Using Content Protection Suite’s Content Auditor module for monitoring and discovery of data at rest and data in use at the endpoint, organizations could identify confidential and private information and determine how it is being used.

Alexandria, Va., February 9, 2007 — Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Schmidt Bies brought an extraordinary wealth of experience and operational knowledge to her duties at the Federal Reserve. She translated her private sector experience into tenure on the Federal Reserve Board that had great public benefit and for that we should all be grateful. While I am confident that the Fed will find someone of high caliber to fill this seat, Dr. Bies will be difficult to replace.

Alexandria, Va., February 9, 2007 — Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Schmidt Bies brought an extraordinary wealth of experience and operational knowledge to her duties at the Federal Reserve. She translated her private sector experience into tenure on the Federal Reserve Board that had great public benefit and for that we should all be grateful. While I am confident that the Fed will find someone of high caliber to fill this seat, Dr. Bies will be difficult to replace.

February 9, 2007, Alexandria, Va. –Representatives from the National Credit Union Administration’s (NCUA) Office of Public and Congressional Affairs answered questions and distributed materials regarding consumer protection to interested Members of Congress and their staff at an event on Capitol Hill yesterday. NCUA was joined by several other federal agencies and consumer groups at the event, which was part of National Consumer Protection Week.