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If elected president, Sen. Elizabeth Warren would charge large banks a fee to help pay for her Medicare-for-all plan.

To lay the groundwork for future success, retailers need to create a digital currency strategy. Most retailers and online brands are aware they need a digital currency plan but don't know where to start the process, says cryptocurrency lawyer Felix Shipkevich.

AI can be utilized for back-office efficiencies like conducting compliance tasks and automating manual, paper-based processes. This redirects resources and human capital in a way that is likely to increase productivity, says Episode Six's John Mitchell.

Revenue growth, especially at scale, is never an accident, and requires a different approach to payments management, says Chargebee's Krish Subramanian.

Banks and smaller businesses are simply not ready, says SmartTrade App's Kent Vorland.

Consumers needed payment platforms that could handle internet payments, and startups quickly filled the void, says Chief Outsiders' Mark Coronna.

As the number of payment types and channels increase, manual processes to handle fraud can rapidly become unmanageable, says The ai Corporation's Oliver Tearle.

Nobody will be keen to go toe-to-toe with the Fed, which is the financial systems’ paramount regulator and central bank with virtually unlimited resources, says Intrepid Ventures' Eric Grover.

With data collection, just because you can doesn’t always mean you should, says Equiniti's Sarah Jackson.

Regulatory bodies are making modifications to disclosure requirements with greater frequency, requiring issuers to spend time and money to make updates across what is often a complex mixture of products, communications and channels, says Messagepoint's Fred Harding.

Big succession moves dominated the industry headlines in the past few weeks, as women claimed key chief leadership titles.

Digital payments and new financial services add complexity to the rules, says Joel Sherwin of Weinberg Gonser LLP.

Citigroup promoted Jane Fraser to president, its second-highest post, making her a likely candidate to succeed CEO Michael Corbat and someday become the first woman to run one of the largest U.S. banks.

The Los Angeles bank is taking its wealth management and entertainment financing businesses to Miami and Long Island as part of its effort to expand nationally.

Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, who will leave the company at the end of the month, has raised net profit and lowered costs by revamping its technology and culture.

As requirements change, open standards can help governments feel confident that solutions are agnostic, flexible and safe from vendor lock-in, says the OSPT Alliance's Luiz Guimaraes.

Arleas Upton Kea shares her 30-year journey to become the first African-American woman to serve as deputy to the FDIC chairman and chief operating officer.

The real opportunity to achieve financial empowerment lies with the companies that are most intimately connected to people's lives, says Rapyd's Eric Rosenthal.

Our industry should work toward making cash easy to use in a digital environment with digital financial services at point of sale, gradually winning over cash users to our shared all-digital payment cause.

As e-commerce becomes international, American merchants should embrace alternative payment methods in other countries, says PPRO U.S.'s Steve Villegas.