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Technology can be an excellent tool for solving problems, like the confidence gap in salary negotiations, which one startup is addressing. Research shows bots can fully oust millions of full-time workers from their jobs and Christine Duhaime says women in banking will lose if they don't step up to the opportunity. Also, Maureen Sherry, former Goldman banker Shauna Mei and Sam Polk talk about life after Wall Street.

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prepares to finalize its rule on prepaid cards, the agency must clarify that automated overdraft products – a common reason consumers dump their banks – are not allowed on prepaid accounts.

More Banks Embrace Blockchain; Mobile Banking Hacks

American banks are emerging from one of the most challenging decades for any industry in history, and one area that is showing a potential way forward is payments.

Strengthening the trade association will engage a higher number of members in the voting process and reinforces the democratic principles that drive cooperatives.

Discussions around reinstating the Depression-era law are headline-grabbing, but Glass-Steagall has no merit in our current financial environment.

Screen scraping is an out-of-date way to share transaction data with mobile apps and services. It's high time for banks to invest in OAuth, a protocol that lets customers access their financial data in a portal of their choosing and is secure.

Reforming the Fed; New Digital Currency?

The recent hack of the DAO (short for Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and the subsequent reversal of funds on Ethereum's blockchain should finally put an end to a decentralization charade.

Companies like Prosper have revolutionized the front end of the consumer lending experience, but they have not proven able to handle even minor financial bumps without running off the road.