Data privacy was a major topic among financial services and technology leaders at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting last week in Davos, Switzerland. Google CEO Sundar Pichai asserted that in 2020, privacy should not and cannot be a “luxury good.”
In recognition of International Data Privacy Day on January 28th, Alliance Data’s Chief Security Officer Mike Britton highlights a few changing industry trends around data privacy and why the issue is so central to the company’s values and obligations.
As a company with clients, end-consumers and associates around the world, Alliance Data works to reflect the diversity of the markets it serves and embraces different backgrounds, viewpoints, skills and talents. At the Board and leadership levels, there has been a specific focus on promoting gender skills and diversity. While demographics have been the focus of associate diversity efforts in the past, recently the Alliance Data Board of Directors has been briefed on a more comprehensive view of the Company’s diversity efforts, including gender make-up, gender leadership and pay equity. With the majority of Alliance Data’s workforce and cardmembers made up of women, Alliance Data is proud of its diversity, equality and inclusion efforts that recently earned the Company a spot on the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
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As a company with clients, end-consumers and associates around the world, Alliance Data works to reflect the diversity of the markets it serves and embraces different backgrounds, viewpoints, skills and talents. At the Board and leadership levels, there has been a specific focus on promoting gender skills and diversity. While demographics have been the focus of associate diversity efforts in the past, recently the Alliance Data Board of Directors has been briefed on a more comprehensive view of the Company’s diversity efforts, including gender make-up, gender leadership and pay equity. With the majority of Alliance Data’s workforce and cardmembers made up of women, Alliance Data is proud of its diversity, equality and inclusion efforts that recently earned the Company a spot on the 2020 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
December 20, 2019 /3BL Media/ - Alliance Data has been named a Best Workplace for Diversity by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE for the fourth consecutive year! Coming in at 71 on this year’s list, Alliance Data is proud of its inclusive, respectful workplace that develops and empowers associates, resulting in 84 percent of employees saying Alliance Data is a great place to work.
In many communities, students who are on a free or reduced cost lunch program at school go hungry over winter break when they are out of the classroom for an extended period of time. Every year during the holiday season, Alliance Data associates in Columbus, Ohio come together at the Company’s Holiday Give Back event to help eliminate this issue. Associates work together to bundle 1,500 care packages filled with food and deliver them to students at local schools to take home and share with their families over the break.
Alliance Data recognizes the United Nations’ International Volunteer Day by celebrating our associates’ volunteer efforts throughout the year and encouraging a continued focus on sustainability and service.
This Giving Tuesday, Alliance Data recognizes its commitment to giving back to the communities where we live and work, and nobody does this better than our associates during our annual Giving Campaign. Every year, our associates rally together to raise funds for their favorite philanthropic causes in an effort to make a collective impact as we give back to our communities. Alliance Data then matches associate donations to each of their chosen nonprofit organizations to make our associates’ gifts go even further.
Ruling Our eXperiences, Inc. (ROX) welcomes Dr. Keisha Siriboe as the inaugural director of the ROX Institute for Research & Training in Columbus, OH
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 20, 2019 /3BL Media/ – Ruling Our eXperiences, Inc. (ROX), today announced the grand opening of the ROX Institute, a multidisciplinary research and training institute that is focused on girls, located in Columbus, OH. Courses are designed for parents, guardians and mentors, and address the complex needs of today’s girls through targeted programs and educational content that enables adults to make data-informed decisions when raising, teaching, mentoring and caring for girls.
Alliance Data recognizes and celebrates the bravery and sacrifice of veterans every day. We are proud to employ and work with many veterans across our associate groups. Every year on Veterans Day, Alliance Data hosts a flag raising ceremony at company headquarters in Columbus, Ohio to honor all the men and women serving in our military who protect our freedoms and thank them for their service.
Alliance Data’s Data for Good initiative helps nonprofits build capacity leveraging data-driven insights. In 2016 the company, a global provider of data-driven marketing and loyalty solutions, announced a partnership with CNM (The Center for Nonprofit Management) to support the launch of CNM-pact®. The program provides nonprofits affordable expertise and software to ensure they know what data to collect, and how to interpret and take action on that data in order to achieve greater program efficiency and effectiveness.
By Rob Boutell, Chief Information Security Officer, Alliance Data Card Services
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Every October, Alliance Data recognizes National Cybersecurity Awareness Month as an opportunity to remind our associates of cybersecurity best practices and reflect on our own security framework, protocols and governance.
