Blog October 7, 2019 by Laurel Sykes

Welcome to our new blog series, The Idea Vault, where you’ll hear from ARB subject matter experts on a variety of topics to educate you on all things banking! We thought we’d launch the series with a few weekly posts on cybersecurity in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness month.This week, we…

Blog October 14, 2019 by Laurel Sykes

Suspicious email exampleThis week we are going to shine the light on email account compromise (EAC) and resulting fraud losses. It’s also been called the “business email compromise (BEC)” or the “CEO wire scam”, but it happens just as frequently to personal email accounts. Non-profit organizations…

Blog December 30, 2019 by Rechelle Ringer

What’s your New Year’s resolution?Exercise more?Eat healthier?Learn something new?How about…take control of your finances?Saving money is a leading New Year’s Resolutions each year – it’s clearly important to us! So, over the course of the next few weeks, we will be exploring key elements of fin…

Blog January 6, 2020 by Rechelle Ringer

What are you saving for?A vacation?A house?A car?College?Retirement?As we discussed last week, 78% of us live paycheck-to-paycheck and 26% of us have fewer than $1,000 saved, which means many of us aren’t saving at all (at least not regularly) and most of us have more in debt than we have savings.1…

Blog January 13, 2020 by Rechelle Ringer

APY or APR? Compound or Simple?Understanding banking terms that describe interest can be confusing, but interest plays an important role in determining which products will help you reach your financial goals, so it worth looking at more closely.What is Interest?Interest is “the interest percent tha…

Blog January 20, 2020 by Rechelle Ringer

“Credit or debit?”We hear these words all the time when making purchases. What’s the difference and why does it matter?We have so many ways to spend money today – with the flick of our wrist, our watches can be used at grocery stores and elsewhere to make speedy purchases. But how do these transact…