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Credit unions not actively thinking about mergers are at risk of missing out, an industry expert warned at a recent conference.

Banks need to mitigate potential bias in algorithmic predictive models using artificial intelligence, as regulators are weighing how to oversee the emerging technology.

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Banks are right to fear the big tech companies that are eyeing financial services, according to Monish Kumar at Boston Consulting Group, who offers suggestions on how traditional lenders can protect their turf.

David Marcus spent more than 15 years climbing the ranks in the mobile sector before becoming PayPal’s president and then moving onto Facebook, where he now leads the blockchain team that launched the controversial Libra cryptocurrency project.

Many businesses are not doing enough to protect their client sensitive PII information. They do not realize that internet and cloud services are not bullet-proof, says Pravin Kothari, founder and CEO of CipherCloud.

The company will pay $43 million in cash for a bank with seven branches and $209 million in deposits.

With margins under pressure and competition intensifying, a number of community banks are zeroing in on underserved markets.

Addressing payment security and achieving interoperability with a rival, private-sector network are just some of the challenges the central bank faces in building a government-backed real-time payment system.

Credible Labs, which lets consumers shop for the best rates on student loans, mortgages and other credits, would be part of an evolving digital strategy at Fox after the multibillion-dollar sale of many of its traditional media assets to Disney.