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More than 100 online authentication methods have earned Fast Identity Online Alliance certification as the organization's goal of eliminating static passwords gains momentum.

Consumers say they consider mobile banking unsafe even as they increasingly use it, assuming they can do nothing to protect themselves from the escalating threats. Banks can't afford to be so fatalistic.

Acquirers are starting to look more closely at a seller’s commitment to cybersecurity to avoid reputational and operational risk.

Roughly 28% of Swift's correspondent bank users have signed up for the cooperative's KYC Registry, defying early skepticism about financial institutions' willingness to share information.

The huge growth of online banking, including mobile, has transformed the industry, bringing tremendous choice, flexibility and convenience to consumers and businesses. But online banking can also be a source of fraud. Watch this video and learn the real risks of web fraud to financial institutions and ways to prevent it.

Bank regulators will stiffen their requirements and identity theft will escalate, but banks will toughen up their defenses.

Bank regulators will stiffen their requirements and identity theft will escalate, but banks will toughen up their defenses.

The blockchain could move from testing to reality, APIs are likely to expand, and more functions will move to the cloud as banks look for ways to fend off fintechs in 2016.

Banks claim bandwidth and security concerns led to interruptions for personal finance apps, but institutions still resist a more secure and efficient portal.

Lawmakers are expected to debate a number of key banking provisions this year, even with the November elections on the horizon.