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SEC, CFTC heads say cyber markets “show little or no regard” for regulation; Dimon and Blankfein say president’s policies help the economy and their businesses.

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In the ever-changing era of cyber threats against payment and personal data, it is dangerous for companies or financial institutions to spend a lot of time or money establishing defenses only against external threats.

Organizations handling payments or personal data are increasingly moving to cloud-based technology, and cyber criminals are taking advantage of that transition in finding new attack vectors.

E-commerce merchants are juggling several challenges at once, creating potential business-threatening gaps Worldpay and Vantiv say can be bridged by their merger.

Digital channels are likely to delight customers, but poorly performing websites are a major concern, especially as these sites come under heavier traffic loads, writes Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint.

The New York company named two new members to its executive committee as it splits oversight of business capital and consumer banking into separate jobs.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a request for information Wednesday seeking comment on the bureau's process for investigating companies that face possible enforcement actions.

The credit card lender said late payments increased during the quarter but that it expects them to level off in 2018.

Plans by IDT and MercuryFX to test XRP for cross-border payments are another vote of confidence for Ripple’s products.