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Banks are good at updating tech for customers but need to do it for staff

Global collaboration among researchers creates a network effect to share resources and spot threats, says Bugcrowd's Casey Ellis.

From brokering insurance contracts to financial settlements, smart contracts could bring immense innovation to CBDCs that otherwise would act as little more than an augmented medium of exchange, says Cypherium's Sky Guo.

Omnichannel models and self-ordering kiosks will be key to linking online ease with the in-store experience, and fundamental to making stores safer and more efficient during the pandemic and beyond, says TouchSuite's Sam Zietz.

The events of this year transformed banking, for better or worse. Smart bankers will build on the ways they learned to do their jobs better.

It's important that breach mitigation strategies take younger people, gaming and school into account, says ForgeRock's Ben Goodman.

Credit unions that hope to fully reopen their facilities need to have a plan in place to ensure employees are being careful and not spreading the coronavirus.

The incoming Biden administration must take steps to block mergers that could create monopolies, such as Visa's pending acquisition of a competitor.

Doing business online certainly isn’t new, but the pandemic prompted even businesses that hadn’t fully committed to the e-commerce space to shift some or all of their traditional operations online, says JotForm's Aytekin Tank.

Open banking will drive an unprecedented move by banks, payments and technology firms to integrate and collaborate on banking-as-a-service, says Prime Trust's Scott Purcell.