BankThink

Financial institutions would be wise to use the end of 2018 as an opportunity to ensure their cyber defenses are beefed up for new threats next year.

Despite what we assume are dedicated efforts to protect customer’s personal information, hackers are finding the loopholes in businesses’ process and technology data protection life cycle. It happened with Target in 2013, the Home Depot in 2014, and many others since, writes Todd Feinman, co-founder and chief product officer of Spirion.

Entering 2019, lenders must think carefully about how they expand their auto loan portfolio. Failure to do so could result in bad loans and bad reviews online.

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.

While much of the debate of the past decade has focused on the Dodd-Frank Act, changes to Basel capital standards have played a big role in adding to the regulatory burden.

The new environment requires merchants to support a solid point of sale system, along with other business activities, writes CardConnect's Michael Mertz

Names, email, encrypted passwords and information related to Facebook and other networks are all at risk, according to Marty Puranik, CEO of Atlantic.Net.

There is no banking crisis, but the president’s actions are threatening to create one.

Utilizing AI and automation will help stop hackers and reduce repetitive jobs, allowing institutions to save money and reinvest more into products for members.

Blockchain looks set to disrupt the gaming industry, and enable a new way for players and developers to interact with gaming platforms, writes Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra.