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Synchrony Financial designed its first voice assistant technology for Amazon Alexa around Amazon’s store card, serving as a template for the private-label card issuer’s other retail clients.

Although there's often a tension between regulation and innovation, the sandbox concept can help startups, regulators and incumbent banks better navigate experimental financial technologies.

Societe Generale is nearing an agreement to pay as much as $1 billion to resolve two U.S. probes — into the rigging of benchmark interest rates and allegations of bribery in Libya — according to people familiar with the matter.

Data breaches have become routine, but the public reaction to these events is changing. Consumers are increasingly wary of sharing their information — just ask Mark Zuckerberg — and this trend raises the stakes for all financial institutions and merchants.

Retaining experienced and competent employees is a crucial but often overlooked strategy for improving bank performance.

The provision would make it harder for criminals who use real Social Security numbers to create fake personas and then apply for credit.

MetLife and Prudential exceed expectations; cybercurrency desk will trade contracts linked to the digital currency’s value.

The information you need to start your day, from PaymentsSource and around the Web. Today: CBA cops to old breach; Ulster Bank's day off hurts mobile pay; Token benefits from PSD2; Ripple deepens its relationship with Standard Chartered.

The spread of breached identity information has resulted in an outbreak of new account creation fraud with a new ground zero for the crimes pointing right at Latin America.

Barclays is one of the top five cobranded card issuers in the U.S., but because the bank has no branch network it must use unconventional marketing approaches — and unique technological innovations — to win customers.