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In heavily regulated industries like banking, much of the interesting data that could feed valuable analytics insights is controlled by local, national, or federated regulations. These regulations and laws have grown up and accumulated over time, and they now define and control key information created and used by these industries. Regulated data might be application-generated (like transactional data) or human generated (like communications, or know-your-customer information), and consequently, it may be structured data or unstructured data. This data has two things in common across these industries: it tends to be the most important, most interesting data in the enterprise, and it’s covered by ever more stringent regulations.

The president-elect's policies on taxes, offshoring, surveillance and other issues will affect bank technology officers and their vendors in a variety of ways. The positives may slightly outweigh the negatives.

Bankers can't start spending their tax cuts under the Trump administration yet because there are so many X factors — including what exactly the new president would seek to steer through Congress. But they sure have fun thinking about what they'd do with the billions of dollars in savings that are possible.

PayPal has added support for Apple Inc.’s Siri voice-command feature for person-to-person payments, following Apple's decision to open Siri to third-party developers.

Flywire, the Boston-based firm specializing in cross-border tuition payments, has expanded to Australia, the third most popular destination in the world for international education behind the U.S. and the U.K.

ACT Canada has named Suzan Denoncourt, the country's managing director at Ingenico Group, to be co-chair of its board.

A Trump presidency might very well accelerate recent efforts to adapt banking regulation to the rise of fintech.

Meta Financial in Sioux Falls, S.D., has agreed to buy the tax advance and consumer lending business of Specialty Consumer Services in Hurst, Texas.

Superior Credit Union Inc., a $630 million institution based in Lima, Ohio, said that its subsidiary, Superior Financial Solutions LLC, has acquired Yocum Realty, a real estate brokerage firm also based in Lima.

Platforms designed for face-to-face or paper transactions may not be the best enabler of payments through connected devices, but a system born out of the digital payments world could fare better.