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		<title>Measuring Twice, Choosing Once</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Winter 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By KENT MARTIN Jan Collins, administrative services manager for Lighthouse Financial Group, doesn’t hesitate when asked to name her company’s preferred method of screening candidates for jobs. “Face-to-face interviews are our rule because we have to see how candidates get along,” Collins says. She said the hiring system at the company is based almost entirely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forecast 2012: Grappling with Economic Uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Winter 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By PHILLIP M. LEE A new year has arrived on our door step, and with the turn of the calendar comes fresh hope. Will 2012 bring a more favorable business environment? Economists advise tempering optimism with prudence. Consumers, financial institutions, and state and city governments are still struggling to right their balance sheets. The resulting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Look Back at FiSCA XXIII</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Winter 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By RICHARD B. KELSKY FiSCA’s 2011 Conference and Expo has come and gone, and many attendees probably haven’t given it a lot of thought since jetting home. I, on the other hand, find my brain quite busy contemplating the experience, new opportunities for the coming year and FiSCA 2012. Being an attendee, an Exhibit Hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAUTION: Double Dip Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fall 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By RICHARD B. KELSKY Think you’re prepared to meet the challenge of increased fraud in a down economy? Guess again. Sure, you might be ready to handle most fraud coming from the other side of the glass. Fake checks and IDs. Forged endorsements and treasury duplicates. Even the extreme case of a deceased payee propped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dishonored Check Leads to Battle Over Attorney’s Fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fall 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By RICHARD WEATHERINGTON Any check casher who has had to go to court to collect on a dishonored check knows that sometimes the cost of the court action can exceed the potential loss on the dishonored check. So recently when a check casher sued over a dishonored check, the check casher also asked the court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try at BB Gun Robbery Nets 35 to Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fall 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By RICHARD WEATHERINGTON Three strikes laws are designed to take career criminals off the streets. They apply even when a robber uses an unloaded BB gun in an attempt to hold up a check cashing store. The manager of a California check cashing store arrived just before the store was scheduled to open. A man, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Move to the Web from Brick and Mortar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Convention 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By THOMAS J. DUFFY As we all know, whether we want to admit it or not, online payday lenders are cannibalizing the market share of the traditional brick and mortar lenders. Loans transacted on the Internet are increasing at an estimated rate of 15 percent to 20 percent a year, according to payday lending consultant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FiSCA Eyes Cordray CFPB Appointment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Convention 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By PHILLIP LEE FiSCA Chairman Joseph Coleman (pictured) gave Cheklist an overview of 2011 from the association’s perspective. In the first part of a two-part series, Coleman discusses the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which launched on July 21, 2011. Cheklist Magazine: Would it be fair to say that the CFPB was the main focus, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Irony</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By RICHARD B. KELSKY Reality is a harsh teacher. For years, check-cashers and payday lenders were routinely chastised for charging to provide financial services to consumers and communities that banks refused to service. In a go-go economy the unfair attacks only worsened as soufflé-like stock prices (based on fast-paced mortgage generation and inflated asset valuations) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Model Has Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Summer 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard B. Kelsky In what seems like the blink of an eye, the check cashing industry has changed. Your business model must change with it. And it must change now. In recent years — particularly the boom ones that preceded the current recession — many check cashers adopted an ostrich’s approach to change. True, [...]]]></description>
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