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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.

NorthOne's U.S. launch joins other app providers hoping to attract entrepreneurs and freelancers with features such as real-time insights into cash flow.

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

Community banks and tech companies that are happy the central bank is building a next-generation system are not as pleased with its four- to five-year timeline. But big banks see the slow rollout as an opportunity to expand their own instant payment network.

It took a few years for mobile wallets to get past the aura of just a "cool technology" looking for a problem to solve, but Google Pay and its peers are clearly finding their niche as a way to embed payments with customer engagement tools.

Debit cards often lack the rewards and spending power of credit cards, and thus do not figure prominently in TV ads or direct mail flyers. Yet despite these limitations debit cards are beloved by millennials and anyone else who wants to avoid credit card debit.