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Metronome, the brainchild of Jeff Garzik, may appeal to banks as the world's first "cross-chain" cryptocurrency.

Deserve wants to deliver credit cards to students and underbanked young adults through a system that underwrites credit without relying on FICO scores and instead by judging the applicants on their future potential.

Deserve is offering unsecured cards to young adults who do not have traditional credit scores. The Silicon Valley startup uses a proprietary algorithm that analyzes bank account activity to evaluate the likelihood that borrowers will repay.

It is often difficult to imagine how something will disrupt an industry because it may seem that the industry is already functioning with no problems. But there are inefficiencies that may not be apparent, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin.

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority opened an investigation into the hack of credit reporting company Equifax Ltd. that saw personal data stolen from at least 143 million people.

A new partnership between NAFCU and Hyperledger is said to be the first such alliance between the blockchain consoritum and a financial services trade association.

The Clearing House has become one of the first Mastercard-certified, third-party token service providers on behalf of issuing banks.

KRACK, combined with other attacks, allows for the reading of pain text username, passwords, credit card numbers as well as the injection of code including ransomware, writes Timothy Crosby, senior security consultant for Spohn.

Trading on Friday afternoon pushed the cryptocurrency's market capitalization above $100 billion for the first time ever.

Equifax continues work to add new security features and restore full access to The Work Number following a report highlighting potential security vulnerabilities in a browser-based portal of its employment verification service.