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A.G. GancarskiOctober 19, 2016

A fun #jaxpol mystery of 2015 — accounting for $27,000 worth of missing employee incentive debit cards from the Alvin Brown administration — petered out this month. “City debit cards reported missing were in a safe all along,” reported the Jax Daily Record. In November 2015, Curry directed the inspector general to look into the debit card issue and to connect with […]

Drew WilsonNovember 26, 2015

The days after Thanksgiving have become the top shopping weekend of the year for many retailers and the National Retail Federation expects more than 135 million Americans will shop retail deals over the holiday weekend. While Black Friday deals may be enticing, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and the Department of Financial Services say […]

Guest AuthorAugust 25, 2015

While I was having lunch with Tallahassee banker Ben Graybar recently, we had an open dialogue on cyber security, cyber threats and how we can make sure our customers were protected. We discussed common threats such as boss phishing, identity theft, crypto-locker, password protocols, and then some new threats came up. One I had never […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorJune 16, 2015

Welcome to another installation of “my bad luck is your source for information!” About six months ago, I reported my identity had been used by someone somewhere to file an unemployment claim. I was lucky. All it took were a handful of phone calls, a few hours and some mildly aggravating music-on-hold in order to […]

Tag: Debit cards
Lawsikia Hodges is joining the law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell. Photo via Smith, Gambrell & Russell

Lenny Curry defends missing debit card investigation

CFO Jeff Atwater reminds consumers to plan before braving Black Friday crowds

Blake Dowling: Beware cyber-skimming at the pump

Janelle Irwin: Not even kids cop a break from credit thieves