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Tablet point of sale solutions provide mobile pay benefits while helping merchants provide new experiences for their customers, create additional touchpoints, and accept all forms of electronic payment, including magstripe, EMV and NFC/contactless writes Ben Wagner, director of solutions at Ingenico Group, North America.

The authority of the Financial Stability Oversight Council to label a firm a “systemically important financial institution” triggers duplicative regulation even if banklike rules are not appropriate to the company.

This might sound eccentric, but gamers are serious about virtual goods, which is being played out in the billions of dollars that they are spending each year on these items, writes Malcolm CasSelle, president of Worldwide Asset eXchange.

New payments systems will allow everyday financial tasks such as paying bills, issuing invoices, making payroll, or settling insurance claims to be easier, faster, safer, and more efficient, writes Jim Aramanda, president and CEO of The Clearing House Association and Payments Company.

Wall Street and its allies in the House are trying to kill the Consolidated Audit Trail, a supercomputer that will allow regulators to detect market abuses, punish wrongdoers and better understand why markets sometimes crash.

As blockchain becomes increasingly popular, heightened levels of data protection and customer awareness of its use become a reality, writes Abhishek Pitti, CEO of Nucleus Vision.

The biggest thing going for recent mobile apps launched by Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase may not be any digital innovation associated with them.

A smart contract for advertising delivery and payments can be subjected to additional layers of verification and enforcement by optional service providers on the network, such as the measurement provider, ratings provider, payment provider and arbitrator, writes Charles Manning, founder and CEO of Kochava.

What makes a strong team? Many in finance are still misjudging these qualities, because, without even realizing it, they gravitate to those they feel most comfortable with. Here is what Barbara Byrne has learned from her own experiences in the industry.

No matter what the new tool is, you can almost bet it will come with its share of disruption to the very people who invented it, writes Kim Curley, director of people and organizational change for NTT Data Services FSI Business Consulting.