The blockchain has the potential to disrupt any industry sector, leaving in its wake a more effective system where people get to own the value they create, says PayStand's Jeremy Almond.

Consumer demand for digital financial services will inspire a wave of new partnerships.

The industry must grapple with new risks that come with storing data in the cloud. Here's what credit union leaders need to know.

It should offer some form of guidance to spur innovation, a former official with the bureau says.

New data analytics could help provide more comfort to banks in doing business with the cannabis industry, despite restrictive federal laws.

Doug Clare explains how the organization uses artificial intelligence to spot crime rings and skimmers.

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Banks should stop competing on volume with large techs and start competing on added-value services to win over customers.

Experian is adding DataVisor, which specializes in advanced machine learning, to its CrossCore platform to identify unusual patterns signaling new fraud activity.

Tanushree Luke played a key role in Capital One's use of a conversational artificial intelligence technology known as Eno, and she previously worked for the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Executives from the bank and the tech company have been working for months to create a cloud designed to address the challenges that often slow financial institutions' adoption of cloud computing.

Service would help with compliance; JPM CEO sees more short-term lending rate spikes if no long-term solution implemented.

E-commerce and multi-channel fraud prevention software provider Riskified has received $165 million in a Series E funding round led by global growth investor General Atlantic.

The team has already built three customer-facing AI tools this year, which it hopes to keep building upon.

Short of replacing member service representatives with robots, artificial intelligence has the capacity to help credit unions make better lending decisions that can improve business.

It should offer some form of guidance to spur innovation, a former official with the bureau says.

It's time to establish a fintech commission.

AI can be utilized for back-office efficiencies like conducting compliance tasks and automating manual, paper-based processes. This redirects resources and human capital in a way that is likely to increase productivity, says Episode Six's John Mitchell.

Revenue growth, especially at scale, is never an accident, and requires a different approach to payments management, says Chargebee's Krish Subramanian.

As the number of payment types and channels increase, manual processes to handle fraud can rapidly become unmanageable, says The ai Corporation's Oliver Tearle.