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Retracting an Obama administration policy that shielded banks servicing marijuana companies threatens financial firms and makes the pot industry too reliant on cash.

If your billing and payments system has API integrations it makes it easy for your most valuable business asset, your customers, to do business with you, writes Martha Salinas, senior vice president at Multi Service Technology Solutions.

From initial engagement through product purchase and post-sales interactions, retail technology offers a variety of ways to customize the shopping experience, writes Carl Mazzanti, founder and CEO of eMazzanti Technologies.

Weak profits and the threat of false claims charges are keeping banks out of the market for loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The proliferation of wearable devices, their increasing sophistication, the uptick in wearable-optimized applications and the willingness of consumers to trade PII for convenience is converging to create a perfect storm of risk that has the potential to threaten commercial enterprises, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

Rather than searching for a "silver bullet" and relying on a single line of defense, FIs and merchants should adopt a layered model combining different approaches and technologies, writes Elina Mattila, executive director at Mobey Forum.

The agency’s acting director has recruited several conservative staff members who will likely prove instrumental in charting its future.

While most Generation X-ers have been accustomed to learning new technologies, mainly through interacting with early adopters, they aren’t always enthusiastic about learning new systems, writes Hamidreza Ghanbari, CEO of Pilatus Bank.

The difference in pay between men and women at Citi is not as striking as some other differences. A reverse mentor changed how Goldman’s Edith Cooper thinks about differences in the workplace. Banks are doing a lot more than relaxing the dress code to retain tech talent. And Ellen Pompeo offers some personal notes on tackling the pay gap.

Breaches help crooks diversify, but stolen cards thrive in the black market, writes Angel Grant, director at RSA's fraud and risk intelligence unit.