Pete Ziverts | Writer & Communicator

It’s an important question. Especially these days as Whitefish grows exponentially and garners national media attention. We’re certainly not the first such community to struggle with growth issues — density, traffic, environmental impact, housing costs. And we won’t be the last. But each of these communities — including Whitefish — really has only one chance to get it right. To preserve their community’s essence and quality of life. Our chance is now. Whitefish deserves better.

Many undergraduates don’t know what they want to do, where to start or even know how to process career information. Student professional development—helping them explore majors, pursue internships and career paths, and preparing them to find career opportunities—has become a must-have for competitive universities.

The “More Time. More Life.” theme was selected because it’s difficult to address the leakage issue entirely on price, particularly given that the airport does not control airfares. The campaign points out that using DRO offers concrete benefits – namely hours of saved drive time, affordable parking, easily navigated facilities and friendly local service – that may outweigh potentially higher ticket prices.

Technology is transforming at a faster pace than ever. As leaders of the IT function, we need to think of ourselves as innovators and change agents –as enablers of business strategy –rather than order takers or cost centres. As a starting point, we need to grasp and articulate the nuances of business strategy, then engineer solutions that deliver on that strategy. In order for IT to lead, business and IT strategy must align. Business strategy should not be hindered by the limitations of existing technology, but rather technology must bring business strategy to life,

Water utilities across Texas are looking for innovative financing solutions as they manage the challenges of tight supply caused by the four-year drought and rapidly increasing demand created by the state’s booming economy.

MSBs do important work by serving a large portion of the population that either by choice or circumstance does not have a banking relationship. While some of these businesses are still developing their AML compliance awareness, there are a vast number of responsible companies with comprehensive programs – ones that very effectively assess risk and monitor transaction activity. Nonetheless, it's up to the MSB industry to establish a set of standards for anti-money laundering compliance and hold itself accountable for meeting those standards. Not lowest-common-denominator standards, but standards that demonstrate sincere commitment and best-in-class practices.

In this part of the program it’s important to remember compliance’s interaction with marketing: prepaid card providers should not oversell such card attributes as anonymity. Most consumers are reasonable people and understand the need to balance privacy and transparency to ensure the safety of the financial system. A marketing pitch based entirely on anonymity is bound to attract the wrong element.

A COMPLIANCE VIEWPOINT: Simply cutting off all money services businesses not only denies service to some communities, but undermines the industry’s own anti-money-laundering efforts.