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The loyalty and rewards landscape is in a state of flux. Consumers are being bombarded with a bewildering range of options, and they are primed to jump ship when a better offer comes along – perhaps half have switched to a new credit card in the past year.

How banks are vying for leverage in the rewards space and where their points of vulnerability may lie.

The company built a patch within 24 hours of being alerted to a vulnerability in messaging software used by many banks and credit unions. Fiserv is looking into how this happened while addressing speculation about whether consumer data is still threatened.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is sending a message to the payments industry that it might not be wise to wait on the card networks to solve the growing problem of mobile and online payments fraud.

While there are automated reconciliation and straight-through processing (STP) solutions for large businesses, small businesses, in particular, continue to be underserved due to their smaller and less frequent invoices, contends Blair Jeffery, COO of Noventis.

How the 'Best Banks to Work For' get employees to love their jobs; Comerica works to address fraud in prepaid benefits program; how to tell if you're banking a pot business; and more from this week's most-read stories.

As the pressure to monetize data in an omnichannel environment increases, so does the fear of misuse.

The company built a patch within 24 hours of being alerted to a vulnerability in messaging software used by many banks. Fiserv is looking into how this happened while addressing speculation about whether consumer data is still threatened.

Organizers of Dogwood State Bank are looking to raise $75 million in hopes of opening by mid-2019.

Amazon Go may be stealing the spotlight, but it is far from alone in the rush to revolutionize in-store checkout through the use of sensors, scanners, mobile devices and more.