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If they don't have them in place already, financial services firms need to provide digital budgeting tools, mobile payment and banking services before young consumers flee to other providers, says Chris Koeneman, senior vice president of strategic solutions for MOBI.

Traditional compliance data handling tools and procedures are mostly not efficient enough to handle the mounting data in the right way, which makes the analysis extremely difficult, writes Srinivasan Pandurangan is senior manager of business consulting at Virtusa.

Banks have the opportunity to transform from being the trusted custodians of our money to being the trusted custodians of our data, writes Martijn Moerbeek, director of group digital strategy and innovation at Legal & General.

The Marriott incident will open the door to loyalty program fraud, account takeover and myriad other risks, writes Michael Reitblat, co-founder and CEO of Forter.

Even the best technologies take time, making it necessary to rein in expectations about what will happen and won't happen in the coming year.

There are barriers to overcome before we will see widespread adoption as a payment option, yet the path is viable, says Jared McClure, co-founder and COO of CrayPay.

The idea that deposit brokers are trying to game the deposit insurance system and could contribute to another crisis is outdated.

Mobile banking, e-commerce integration, loyalty and rewards schemes and even IoT payments all link to cards. That’s a lot to ask of a back-end system, writes Rune Sorensen, a product manager at Nets.

Everything from fintechs to Amazon are threatening the financial services industry. Credit unions need a plan in place to keep up.

Data regulations pressure small banks and credit unions, which could benefit from a pro-innovation regulatory environment, according to Stephen Menon, vice president of product at Finn AI.