Opinions

Banks that haven't built a plan to implement the Federal Reserve's new real-time payments system still have time to make up lost ground.

If the U.S. and Canada don't develop a coherent framework for regulating the industry, North America risks broader losses to other growing industries, like fintech and artificial intelligence.

Regulators need to recognize the uniqueness and potential of cryptocurrency instead of seeking to fit crypto assets into an outdated regulatory framework.

Widespread adoption of a central bank digital currency would utterly transform the financial services sector by reducing access to loans and raising prices for consumers.

It would be a mistake for regulators in the U.S. and Canada to delay the rollout of rules supporting open banking. Fears of bank runs as a result of customer access to their own financial data are overblown.

Like it or not, Big tech is going to become a player in financial services. It would be better to write rules now than to wait for a crisis.

The success of central bank digital currencies will be directly tied to their usability — by both individuals and businesses.

A noted futurist argues that banks that rely on traditional methods of attracting and growing deposits are setting themselves up for failure in an increasingly online world.

The United States needs to follow the lead of other countries by letting fintech firms test innovative products at the national level. Failure to do so could send promising new ideas overseas.

There are existing ways to authenticate third-party permissioned data access that don't involve screen-scraping or expensive token-based systems.