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The mobile payment revolution has made mobile banking apps even more lucrative and attractive to crooks.

In the age of e-commerce and the "Pays," redemptions will no longer be viewed primarily as an expense to be managed, but rather as a tool to create value through higher spending, brand engagement, and long-term loyalty, says Capco's Daniela Hawkins.

Digital incentive marketing, gift cards and loyalty points creates more information to attract crooks, says PerimiterX's Omri Lluz.

Machine learning can build a layered defense, and analysts don't have to spend as much time combing through data to spot threats, says Exabeam's Anu Yamunan.

Alternatives Federal Credit Union is making loans to pay for gender-reassignment surgery, but the initiative has bothered some members.

Facebook's cryptocurrency poses serious regulatory and economic challenges to global markets, argues Ralf Gladis, CEO of Computop.

Credit unions have until midnight tonight to submit nominations for this free recognition program.

U.S. firms have been reliant on data aggregators like credit bureaus and other data companies to provide identity verification services, says Entersekt's Jennifer Singh.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and three House members are seeking more details about Paul Watkins' past work with an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center says is an anti-LGBTQ hate group.

The Gulf region poses significant and unique challenges in AML, KYC and other compliance checks, according to Accuity's Nirhjar Daripa.

Were the Fed to develop its own payments platform, it would be expensive, duplicative, inefficient, and curtail development of real-time services, argues the National Taxpayers Union's Thomas Aiello.

Fintechs can help integrate payments into banking systems while solving the compliance problem, says Joel Sherwin of Weinberg Gonser LLP.

With women and minorities holding less than 25% of top positions at the eight largest U.S. banks, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters and other Democrats called on banks to improve their recruiting efforts and invest in programs aimed at building pipelines of diverse talent.

The tougher authentication standards will take time and effort, but will strike a blow against fraud, writes Andrew Mortland, vice president of product at Accertify.

CIT Group will gain nearly $7 billion in low-cost deposits, mostly tied to homeowners associations, as part of the acquisition.

The difficulty of detecting synthetic fraud has caused it to quickly develop into the primary method of attack for criminals, says Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of Chargebacks 911 and CIO of its parent company Global Risk Technologies.

The San Antonio company named Judith Frey vice president of digital banking, Maria Alvarez Mann chief information officer for bank technology and Carri Arnold bank technology officer.

Former Mastercard and longtime bank executive Colleen Taylor has joined Wells Fargo, where she will oversee the bank's merchant services strategy.

There is no silver bullet when it comes to cybersecurity—and that goes double for the cloud, says Justin Fier, director for cyber intelligence and analysis at Darktrace.