Compliance

The recent explosion of activity around biometrics and other new forms of authentication should seem like a good thing for the development of connected commerce. But right now it's more of a wild west that needs to be tamed.

With so much uncertainty, the only thing that's clear is how different the sector may look a year from now. Here's an overview of the leading trends in technology that will impact payments and banking in 2018.

It will pay $11.5 million to resolve Finra claims that a brokerage unit displayed inaccurate research ratings for hundreds of securities for nearly five years.

The South Korea Financial Services Commission has acted on its concern that the growing popularity and speculation in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would become dangerous.

China's central bank has put the brakes on mobile and e-commerce payment schemes in the past, mostly from the standpoint of having a wary eye on third-party players elbowing their way into financial services.

The credit bureau enraged many with its response to a massive data breach this fall, but closing the company down would ultimately harm consumers.

With so much uncertainty, the only thing that's clear is how different the sector may look a year from now. Here's an overview of the leading trends in technology that will impact banking in 2018.

Merchants won't know for sure until about midway through 2018 whether they received a significant win, after the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the anti-competition complaint against American Express.

China's Ant Financial Group, the company behind Alipay, was among eight companies that EMV standards governing body EMVCo has named as technical associates to its secure-payment consortium.

Credit union examiners will be focused on cybersecurity, BSA compliance, fraud prevention and more.