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For retailers, WeChat’s hyperactive and massive user base is a goldmine, but mini-apps don't solve the most prominent demand of retailers: to acquire and retain new traffic, writes Franklin Chu, managing director of Azoya International.

Credit card benefits aren't worth much to a consumer who has no idea what the card offers, or has forgotten about them over time and simply never uses them.

Senate Finance Committee leaders sent a letter to Equifax CEO Richard Smith scrutinizing the scope of the company's data breach and its response.

The agency has earmarked all funds from a Hurricane Harvey recovery package for direct relief, despite calls to get more bankers involved in the process. It remains to be seen how the agency will handle the cleanup for Hurricane Irma.

The FBI and at least two states are looking into the data breach; Harvey shut lots of banks, but mobile banking apps keep customers operating.

First Data is one of many payments companies working to get its customers back up and running in the wake of the severe storms, but it's also a victim — its center in Sugar Land, Texas, suffered flooding, causing the Atlanta-based company to set up operations at a hotel in Houston for 400 staff.

The gig or sharing economy has transformed and disrupted the global workforce. It has redefined what we should expect from our payments, writes Ralph Perdomo, a research analyst and writer at Nvoicepay.

Everybody say it with me, “Customer data is a liability.” And the Equifax breach shows why.

Leaders of the national credit union trade associations are once again calling for a congressional solution to a problem that has plagued consumers for years

In order to compensate victims of the breach, Equifax is offering free credit monitoring services that include a mandatory arbitration clause, a measure Democrats were highlighting to lobby support for the CFPB's rule banning such clauses.