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There's equal importance on encrypting data and securing the server, says STEALTHbits Technologies' Adam Laub.

The equation is no mystery to those in payments or financial services: Expand your digital footprint, and you expand the opportunities for hackers to damage your network.

Banks have to be more resourceful with technology and less dependent on high interest rates.

Consumer trust is hard to win, easy to lose, and eroding daily as attackers achieve success with fraudulent transactions, says NuData Security's Justin Fox.

Tina Eide, Amex's senior vice president of global fraud, discusses the card issuer's efforts to strengthen its transaction monitoring.

Many companies have tools in place alerting them to possible security issues, but if companies get a large volume of issues, this quickly overwhelms the ability for security and risk professionals to analyze, prioritize, and remediate, writes DivvyCloud's Chris DeRamus.

The case of a pastor wrongly-accused by Wells Fargo has mandatory arbitration back in the spotlight; JPMorgan started buying securities long before talk about rate cuts; more banks are turning to M&A to acquire talent; and more from this week's most-read stories.

At the same time, consumers hold banks to tougher disclosure standards than government agencies, health care organizations and retailers, according to Experian.

Crypto technology will play a major role in the central bank's real-time payments system.

PNC has gone live on RippleNet, giving the blockchain company a major win in its effort to build a real-time cross-border payments network that includes large U.S. banks.