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Payment crooks are behaving more like organized crime syndicates, and that's putting merchants, processors and banks on the defensive, argues Yossi Geller, a vice president at Paygilant.

The agency’s proposed changes to its standard for small-dollar loans will help ensure underbanked consumers still have access to credit. Concerns about predatory lending are overstated.

The banking agencies would benefit from running simulations designed to ensure they’re ready to handle the next crisis.

By using the dark web as a cybersecurity tool, instead of an ungovernable threat, financial institutions can intercede and interdict compromised card data post-breach, pre-fraud, writes Ted Kirk, vice president of strategic partnerships for Advanced Fraud Solutions.

Mel Watt calls FHFA watchdog “sexist,” after it concludes he’s guilty of sexual harassment. State Street sues the "Fearless Girl" sculptor. Banks big and small face mounting pressure on gender pay gap and board diversity. And another top 40 U.S. bank might get a female CEO.

Modern, global merchants need comprehensive, integrated frameworks that reduce costs, manage risk and exposure, provide direct connectivity and redundancy to optimize reliability and keep control over the customer experience closer to the merchant, according to Eric Rosenthal, managing director of the Americas at Rapyd.

Critics of the merger need to recognize the competitive threat banks face from big tech and other innovators.

While most early GDPR fines have been relatively low, a larger more recent fine at Google is a sign of larger levies to come, according to Karen Neuman and Federica De Santis from the privacy and cyber security practice at Goodwin.

Congressional investigations are often rushed affairs that fail to dig beneath the surface. But the hiring of a veteran investigator who has tangled with Deutsche in the past suggests that this politically charged inquiry is likely to be thorough.

Whether they process cards, bank accounts, cash, or whatever comes next, digital payment systems must be reliable, flexible and ever-advancing, writes Michael Kaplan, chief revenue officer at PayNearMe.