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Merchant terminals—the longtime bedrock technology of the payments industry—are rapidly evolving, and few people have a better view than Jennifer Miles, executive vice president of North America for France-based payment terminal maker Ingenico.

Whenever Facebook adds something that more closely ties its network to shopping, service or payments, it has an immediate ripple effect. And Marketplace is becoming a major part of Facebook’s influence.

Cybersecurity is about protecting the house, the corporation, the people, process, technology and the data, writes Harley Lippman, founder and CEO of Genesis10.

The 2020 budget would add the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and FSOC to congressional appropriations, charge lenders for FHA upgrades and require universities to have skin in the game on student loans.

Barclays is partnering with digital rewards companies as part of its focus on investing in fintech and developing new business models. Its recent investment in Bink, a U.K.-based loyalty platform provider, marks the fourth company in this field that Barclays has partnered with.

The CUSO and tech giant have joined forces to help expand blockchian services to credit unions.

A new regulation in the Golden State could provide a de facto national standard as Congress continues to stall on data breach legislation.

Lawmakers must hold merchants accountable when credit unions are left cleaning up the mess after data breaches.

As machine learning generally benefits from lots of examples, by the time a model can be implemented to tackle the new threat, the threat has generally moved on, so frequent updates to models are necessary, writes Oliver Tearle, head of research at The ai Corporation

The Bank of England is requiring Visa to appoint PwC as an independent third party to review the card brand’s progress in implementing recommendations that followed a 2018 outage in Europe.