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The law gives residents more — and welcome — control over their data. But it will take work for credit unions to meet the new requirements, such as possibly having to amend third-party vendor agreements.

The subprime auto lender Prestige Financial Services used machine learning to make more effective lending decisions than its former model.

With increased scalability, more and more consumer products can be verified and monitored every second, writes Vlad Trifa, chief product officer at Ambrosus.

Biometrics make sweeping attacks harder to pull off, but fraudsters are finding new ways to target vulnerable groups of customers.

Card-on-file tokenization systems enable payment details to be instantly refreshed when a card is lost, stolen or expires, according to André Stoorvogel a director at Rambus.

Her primary job is advising senior executives on compliance, technology and data security matters, but Hosein is also making a mark as a champion for up-and-coming female leaders.

The plan identified five risk areas — including cybersecurity — that will be on the agenda for agency examiners next year.

Crypto reduces corruption by enabling nonprofits to control and see how money is spent throughout its organization, according to Connie Gallippi, founder and executive director of BitGive.

Online commerce is today dominated by a small handful of middlemen marketplaces that charge outsize commissions for access to a consolidated buyer pool. But new technology can change that model, writes KJ Erickson, CEO and co-founder of Public Market.

Fintech developers are trying to monetize data without scaring away privacy-conscious consumers — and, increasingly, to make sure bigger financial companies don't overstep the same boundaries.