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Businesses continue to demonstrate that they are no match for criminals’ swift ability to hijack vulnerable personally identifiable information or socially engineer victims into payments fraud, says Giact's Kimber Johnson.

With face-to-face service altered, banks need to improve their data game to build new payment services, says Tealium's Heidi Bullock.

Delaying a proposed benchmark for grading banks' performance in Community Reinvestment Act exams to appease critics of its initial proposal will make it harder to gauge the final rule’s impact.

Most organizations simply can’t afford slow processes that are riddled with bottlenecks, says Kofax's Michelle Trapani.

Alipay’s assembling a portfolio to stitch together a multinational financial services ecosystem. The mobile payments titan’s IPO will provide an enormous war chest to develop new services, turbocharge international expansion, and fund acquisitions, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

Synthetic data represents a direct one-to-one transformation of the original data that reveals true insights into consumer spending, says Facteus' Lorn Davis.

Lawmakers’ attempt to stall the OCC’s final rule, preventing regulators from reforming a 1977 law meant to help underserved communities, does far greater harm than any changes that are raising objections, says the acting comptroller.

In too many places, identity verification and other vetting is still done manually, says Signicat's John Erik Setsaas.

We’re just at the beginning of what will be a period of significant, lasting changes to the world of real-time payments, says FIS' Raja Gopalakrishnan.

To help stop a cycle of systemic racism, bankers need to focus on advancing Black employees to leadership positions and create long-term relationships with Black-owned businesses.