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The fight between Visa and Walmart over authenticating chip cards could have a negative outcome for everyone involved, regardless of which side wins.

With what may be as little six months to get anything done on a politically split two-person board, Metsger has moved quickly to solidify his position.

Sexism is less blatant than in the "Boom-Boom Room" era, but women aren't yet treated like equals at the male-dominated Wall Street firms. A community bank CEO takes a contrarian approach to underperforming branches, staffing up instead of closing them down, and Bank of the West embeds star employees at nonprofits as leadership training. Also, FinCEN's Jennifer Shasky Calvery in her final congressional hearing, a swipe at Brexit sexism, and is the fact that uniforms are going out of fashion a good thing for gender equality?

In the ongoing melee between the two major players, strong authentication has been put on the backburner in favor of the respective economies of implementing chip card technology.

Recent legislative proposals to make piecemeal changes to the government-sponsored enterprises could set broader GSE reform on the wrong path.

Citi Fined $425M; Rare Financial Crime Charges

For a customer to switch from a tried and true payment method to a new one, the provider must be able to offer a unique payment experience which offers concrete and obvious advantages like top-level security, unique rewards and unprecedented agility. For these reasons, the Merchant Customer Exchange's retailer-led mobile payments initiative CurrentC was bound to fail.

Credit unions have long paid close attention to managing risk, but identifying, evaluating and mitigating areas of vulnerability can go a long way toward keeping a CU’s data safe and secure.

When it comes to earning consumer loyalty with user-friendly mobile banking tools, everyday interactions can matter more than momentous ones.

The debate over speeding up payments transactions should consider the necessity of allowing consumers time to rethink and abort their purchases.