Opinions

Prepaid cards and new mobile innovation in prepaid can bring speed and improve user experience for many different payment types and other financial services.

Neither bank regulators nor banks' risk managers can afford to wait until rating agencies downgrade Deutsche before understanding the level of exposure they have to the German bank giant.

The technology behind bitcoin has almost endless use cases.

To land and retain millennial customers, mobile banking apps must graduate from simply replicating online banking on a phone to leveraging the native functionality of mobile hardware.

The U.S. migration has passed the one-year mark, but more key dates are on the horizon.

We are still in the early days of digital finance — but the heated tone of conversations surrounding approaches to data access threatens to keep us there.

The Wells Fargo scandal is an example of what happens when a system requires you to effectively hand over the keys to your identity to strangers as if you were giving them your car keys. Moreover, it is a call to banks to restore trust and become leaders in fixing the ID problem once and for all.

Mary Mack is beginning damage control as she overhauls Wells' sales culture; Dorothy Savarese talks diversity of bank sizes as she becomes chairman of the ABA; and Elizabeth Warren implores the president to demote Mary Jo White. Also, industry manbassadors talk work-life balance and the importance of flexibility for women as Visa's CEO resigns to devote more time to family. And a couple of small activist firms are taking on gender bias at the world's largest companies.

Rather than continuing to invest in inclusion initiatives that fail to drive diversity, banks should embrace these three programs instead.

The fact that the number of cybersecurity incidents affecting companies is rising at an alarming rate year over year hardly raises eyebrows anymore.