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Talk about a #MaleFail: how shining a light on harassment could have unintended consequences for women in financial services. The New York Fed is dealing with a backlash of its own. Chief marketing officers like Citi’s Jennifer Breithaupt are playing an important role in product development. Also, new initiatives target bias on Slack and in Shakespeare.

The technology behind how payments are being delivered is advancing quickly. Unfortunately, standards and systems aren’t evolving fast enough to keep up, writes Greg Cohen, president of Paya.

Like a crime wave, data leaks and vulnerable static identifiers show no sign of abating, as MyFitnessPal became the latest in a string of sites to have users' data exposed trough usernames and hashed passwords.

A BankThink argues that Treasury's GSE cash infusions are just the return of stolen money; MUFG wants its Union Bank to be one of the nation's 10 largest; fintech promises a 30-minute mortgage; and more.

Northwest CU Association hails victory in all three of the states it represents, including an update to Idaho's Credit Union Act, as well as bills related to data security and municipal deposits.

Becoming a member of Hyperledger fits Ripple’s ideal of allowing different blockchains or distributed ledgers to communicate with each other.

The announcement comes after a Federal Reserve Board task force issued a report in September that said it would further examine options for modernizing the U.S. payments system.

President Trump's isolationism is colliding head-on with a lucrative trend of Chinese tourists coming to the U.S. looking — and payments companies are caught in the crossfire.

Voice authentication software has improved call center service at Virginia Credit Union and shortened call times by nearly 25 percent.

Early Bitcoin adopter Reddit stopped accepting payments with the largest digital currency.