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Bipartisan proposal would remove the SIFI label from more than two dozen banks; European regulator cautions investors on the risks as bitcoin price plunges.

Transit transactions will increase card use and loyalty, and will generate the same sort of reputational boost London enjoys with Oyster, writes Andrey Tikhonov, director of payment technology for Infinite Peripherals.

The San Francisco company is one of numerous online lenders that are struggling to become profitable.

Barclaycard is piloting a service to deliver instant digital purchase receipts to customers through a partnership with fintech startup Flux, which launched last year with the aim of eliminating paper receipts.

It is important to have the right layers of security in place, ideally those that evaluate passive and behavioral biometrics, as they are proving to be the most reliable, writes Robert Capps, authentication strategist and vice president of NuData Security.

Financial institutions process hundreds of thousands of interbank payments per day on behalf of their clients, which can be revolutionized by blockchain, writes Angel Diaz, vice president of technology and advocacy for IBM Digital Business Group.

In mid-2015, several thousand banks registered for dot-bank domains. More than two years later, only a few hundred have converted.

Outsiders gained access to customer information at Southern National Bancorp of Virginia using a malicious email. Other financial institutions, meanwhile, are implementing policies in hopes of avoiding the same fate.

Sweden's Klarna made its mark with a pay-later model for e-commerce shopping that’s spread to other European countries and the U.S., and now it’s piloting the same concept for in-store purchases.

Issuers have access to a treasure trove of helpful data about us, such as our payment habits, investment activities, purchases, and so on, writes Sanjay Bhakta, senior director of solutions for Ness Digital Engineering.