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Success rates vary wildly for innovation labs, but some basic principles increase a bank’s chances of the incubation process leading to viable product expansion.

Innovation in financial services faces a hurdle in the narrow, short-term profit motives of predatory patent trolls. Here is what startups can do to ward off attacks.

An organization could go to great lengths to protect its internal network only to have all that effort undone by its third party service provider failing to take proper security measures.

The potentially wide-ranging effects of an appeals court decision in Midland Funding v. Madden could deal a serious blow to preemption under the National Bank Act.

While banks should be wary of potential restrictions on the H-1B visa program, policymakers should be mindful of the consequences of limiting H-1B visas too severely.

Credit unions cannot afford to just donate to PACs this election season if they want to see lasting change on Capitol Hill.

Apple Pay's plans to expand to online retailers may seem as simple as a natural progression, but appearances can be deceiving.

Networking is a skill, and banks would be wise to offer their employees a little guidance on how to do it effectively. Otherwise, there will be more failed efforts, like this one from a new banker in town who surely thinks he "networked" at a recent golf tournament. Here are a few tips to maximize the time and money you invest in such events.

The courts would not be getting involved in defining the reach of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if the architects of the agency had instituted a commission to oversee it.

When you make a payment on a website using a HTTPS connection, Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption is what makes your payment transfer over the public internet secure. Unfortunately, it's riddled with security flaws.