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Jo Ann Barefoot, a former deputy comptroller of the currency, discusses her regtech startup Hummingbird.

Grow Financial alleges that a former employee stole private credit union information and passed it on to GTE prior to obtaining a job there.

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

The British machine learning technology company Featurespace is boosting its expansion strategy in the U.S. by arguing that fraud-fighting technology can improve on its own through experience.

Two related and equally humiliating cases of high-level bankers completely falling for fake emails illustrate the dangers of social engineering and the need to better protect executives and other employees from themselves.

Blockchain platform's capital raising is its biggest to date; mutual fund giant now accepts digital currency in its cafeteria as CEO Abigail Johnson embraces it.

Cyber and data security provider Thales e-Security has launched a new version of its hardware security module monitor, which allows network operators to watch activity on numerous modules through a single dashboard.

Long Game uses behavioral economics and the mass popularity of lottery games to redirect lottery spending toward savings.

Target Corp. agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle state lawsuits over a 2013 hack of its database when the personal information of millions of customers was stolen, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Better information security will remain the foundation of success as the financial services industry moves quickly to engage new business models.