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While some aspects of the plan would hurt, lower corporate tax rate would increase bank earnings; Wall Street firm thinks the majority of its clients prefer human advisers.

Card fraud is declining, making smaller merchants and other chip card laggards even larger targets, writes Allen Friedman, director of payment solutions at Ingenico Group, North America.

Five steps to increasing staffers' confidence -- and, in turn, boosting the bottom line.

The Sonic breach coupled with the tsunami of recent breaches might just be the game changers that lead U.S. federal authorities to better protect the data collection, processing and storage of customer data, writes Robert W. Capps, vice president of business development for NuData Security.

As eye-catching as the scandals at Wells Fargo are, the most shocking thing is that federal regulators have taken no meaningful action against the bank’s executives.

Regulators disagree whether proposed changes to capital requirements would ease burden on community banks; JPMorgan on hook if jury award not overturned.

Amid a series of breaches, banks and payment services companies would be far better served by building solutions and programs that work toward instilling consumer confidence, instead of creating situations that continually erode trust, writes Madeline Aufseeser, CEO of Tender Armor.

Very large, established industries like financial services have strongly entrenched ways of doing business that, over time, have become inefficient, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin, adding blockchain can change that.

How most banks obtain deposits has changed radically over the past 30 years, thanks in part to innovation. It is time for regulators to rethink their notion of what constitutes a quality deposit portfolio.