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Fifth Third’s new chief legal counsel, Jelena McWilliams, might be changing jobs again and Australia’s first female bank CEO tells all in a memoir. Plus, the advantage with female founders, and young feminists on the rise.

Bankers who shake more hands, ask more questions and, yes, hand out more business cards than the competition will win more clients.

Shopping and paying for goods with a smartphone or tablet has been a staple of modern consumerism for years, but mobile wallet adoption is just at its early stages, writes Lisa Stanton, president of InAuth.

Events of the past decade demonstrate that further tearing down firewalls between banking and nonbanking businesses would be a huge mistake.

With the environment in Washington favoring deregulation, banks are pushing regulators to let them back into the payday lending game. They should know better.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit and blogs create environments where like-minded users can connect, share opinions and cultivate a sense of camaraderie, creating an unprecedented number of distinct nano-segments, writes Steve Gilde, director of global payments for Paragon.

Digital blockchain tokens can be naked instruments for profit-sharing among investors, but other types are directly linked to building network infrastructure. Their creation and sale must be unimpeded by regulation.

Machine learning can allow customers to take control of their data-driven decision making, including fraud, writes Mark Goldspink, CEO of The ai Corporation.

A spike in income volatility has some banks working on ways to help people cope, and now the fintech think tank Y Combinator Research is planning to test a possible solution, albiet a controversial one. Have you heard of "universal basic income" yet? You probably will.

As an investment community, we have to realize that any system with 90% homogeneity is vulnerable, while diversity makes the system more resilient.