Opinions

This week's White House Summit on cyber security at Stanford University comes at a pivotal time for payment and security professionals, which have an opportunity to cooperate to fight Internet crime.

Bankers originally needed to shorten their hours in order to allow for the laborious paperwork involved in processing financial transactions. Now there’s no such justification for closing shop.

The flood of mobile-centric point of sale (POS) offering provides many options for retailers, but there's still a long road ahead to adoption on the consumer side.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

It's not enough for bank chiefs to delegate digital responsibilities to younger staffers. Only by understanding the mentality of tech-savvy customers can bank leaders develop smart strategic planning.

In a term often reserved for interior design, women's fashions or ballroom dancing, Apple Pay users call the mobile pay system "elegant" because of how easy it is to use.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

Critics of online alternative lenders argue that their underwriting models are unproven and that a financial crisis could bring the whole industry crashing down. But while Lending Club and other startups may be relatively new to the scene, they're no greenhorns.

E-commerce retailers generally target the 80 million millennial shoppers because they are more likely to buy things online and spend more money online than other demographics.

The Federal Reserve appears to have looked at Bitcoin as a potential set of rails for real-time payments in the banking system but shelved the concept for now.