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Several former policymakers have joined virtual currency firms as directors or advisers, but the trend carries risks for officials and consumers alike if these companies stumble.

RPA changes the game, enabling the automated transfer of data between different systems, and bringing significant levels of improved efficiency to the organization, writes Christine Parker, vice president and financial services industry market lead for Pegasystems.

Legendary former central banker Paul Volcker praised Jerome Powell as the current Federal Reserve chairman faces fire from President Donald Trump for raising interest rates.

Executives offer support to lift investment bankers’ morale; retailer’s move from Synchrony Financial could force card issuers to make concessions.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: Big financial brands suffer web spoofs; Circle and Coinbase collaborate; NAB, Microsoft build facial-recognition ATM; Clover launches in Canada.

NCR has turned to the acquisition market to shore up its defenses against fintech challengers, a further signal that longtime retail industry staples such as payment hardware and ISOs are going by the wayside as dedicated business models.

Consumer Financial Protection Agency Acting Director Mick Mulvaney is winding down some of the efforts his predecessor worked hardest on: enforcement of payday and fair lending rules and the Military Lending Act. Reporter Kate Berry shares the latest. 

Building a blockchain solution that adds greater transparency in transactions has the potential to make KYC and KYT processes for crypto transactions much more efficient than the system in place, writes Ash Shilkin, president of Ivy.

Despite recriminations about how the crisis and ensuing regulations have tightened loan access, an actual assessment of mortgage credit availability finds the situation is more complicated.

Ballinger National Bank would be renamed Keystone Bank and its headquarters would move to an Austin suburb.