Karen Epper Hoffman

The online-only bank and its payments partner are making fresh progress in the often stodgy and slow-moving (but steady) area of automated clearinghouse  

Since she was elevated to her current role roughly 18 months ago, Mariniello has continued to balance emerging opportunities with implementing long-term growth initiatives.

Guild has seen the "complexity of attacks against the sector and our customers" rapidly increase for the more than three decades that she herself has been working at the intersection of banking and technology. 

When LoCascio was tapped as COO in 2021, First Horizon became one of the few major regional banks to boast 60% of its executive management roles were filled by women.

As managing partner at Edward Jones, Pennington's in charge of 8 million clients, more than 19,500 financial advisors and $2.1 trillion assets under management.

Any time a new market opens up, fraudsters rush in to exploit it — and this is especially true of high-risk markets like gambling.

Cryptocurrency has struggled to be accepted for everyday payments, but it is finding opportunities in certain niches — such as gun sales.

Financial institutions are hoping to get ahead of the growing and seemingly insurmountable problem of payment card fraud not just by looking at who cyber-attackers are going after currently but who they are likely to defraud in the near future.

Security researchers are uncovering widespread vulnerabilities in several popular mobile point-of-sale systems, which have become increasingly popular in recent years among many types of merchants large and small.

In Ireland, credit unions are speeding up the launch of their electronic payment alternatives and working with Visa and MasterCard to offer debit cards to compete more aggressively with local banks.

Throughout Europe and Asia in particular, ATMs are being used to distribute an increasingly wide array of financial and non-financial products and services.

Throughout Europe and Asia in particular, ATMs are being used to distribute an increasingly wide array of financial and non-financial products and services. This is in sharp contrast to the U.S., where most advanced ATMs offer the same set of banking-related features.

Virtual credit cards, which have struggled with adoption in other regions, are picking up steam in India as a means to combat online fraud.

Despite a name that makes it sound like a droid from "Star Wars," 2C2P has grown to be a serious contender in Southeast Asia's burgeoning alternative payments market.

Widely regarded as a titan of online payments in the United States, PayPal has built a significant business in Europe as well. But is its online payments business a strong foundation for the still-nascent mobile money market here?

India's merchants are beginning to embrace mobile card readers, fueled by the nation's growing dependence on payment cards and smartphones.

As escalating political tensions over the Ukraine crisis leave Russia increasingly isolated, the country may have to look internally for a new payment system.

Nigeria is steadily adding technology to tackle its fraud and risk problems, improving the country's reputation in the international payments landscape.

Vodafone's M-Pesa mobile money service, known for quickly developing a devout following of users in Africa, will help the telecom expand in parts of Europe that its more high-tech payment offerings can't reach.

The digital revolution has yet to sweep up the money remittance business as it has other retail payments services, but change is coming fast.