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Creating an environment that employees love and recruiting a diverse workforce isn't easy. Here's how some Best Fintechs to Work For do it.

Is it realistic to think Wells Fargo might get a new female CEO? How one fintech makes women feel welcome, and how another fosters innovation. Plus some of our Most Powerful Women make big moves – two retire, one jumps from BNY Mellon to Amex, one exits a board and another joins one.

As fraudsters get more sophisticated, better funded and increasingly connected, it’s clear that the fight against fraud will be ongoing, not a battle with a clear end, writes Rafael Lourenco, an executive vice president at ClearSale.

Kelly Skalicky has succeeded her father as CEO of the Minnesota bank.

Online retailers must accept hacking, malware and phishing as a reality of doing business in our digital world, but tokenization can make the prize less worthy for crooks, according to André Stoorvogel, director of product marketing for Rambus Payments.

Financial institutions must manage compliance budgets without losing sight of primary functions and quality control, writes Chad Hetherington, global vice president of professional services for NICE Actimize.

Maria Teresa Tejada joined the bank Monday as chief strategic enterprise risk officer.

Universities are starting to offer courses in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency skills, and that's just the start, according to David Uhryniak, blockchain services leader at Crowe LLP, and Brian T. Zygmunt, a partner at Crowe LLP.

To keep up with demands for instant digital payments, retailers should explore options to make their payment processes quick and easy, according to Steve Davidson, vice president of warranty products at Fortegra.

Consumers are willing to pay a bit more for repeat business at a merchant. By passing these fees on to shoppers, small retailers no longer have to cut vital operational costs to accommodate for lower margins from loyalty programs, says Robert Maynard, the founder of SurchX.

A data-driven approach, regardless of human or machine involvement, is a state that organizations need to move to in order to maximize detection in the present and to ease the transition to a more primarily machine-driven future, writes Oliver Tearle, head of research at The ai Corporation.

The time has come for payment incumbents to increasingly depend on the cloud for more production applications and emerging technologies and choose platforms, partners and tools that will turn them into butterflies rather than fast caterpillars, writes Stephan Fabel, director of product at Canonical.

The real value for Apple is in the underlying consumer and spending data. Apple already has a tremendous amount of consumer data via its phones and will gain the ability to pair that with consumer spending, according to Ali Raza, managing principal at Blue Leviathan.

It creates an auditable, distributed ledger of transactions that cannot be altered or removed, enabling transactions that are valid, authentic, trustworthy and immutable, according to David Uhryniak, a blockchain services leader at Crowe LLP, and Brian T. Zygmunt, a partner with Crowe LLP.

By taking precautions to protect your mPOS devices, your business can safely sell at more locations for a comparatively low cost while keeping your customer and company data safe, writes Rafael Lourenco, an executive vice president at ClearSale.

The chance of losing money on an integration with a service such as PayPal is extremely low, and you could achieve a double-digit reduction in cart abandonment, writes Chad Reid, a director at JotForm.

Payment crooks are behaving more like organized crime syndicates, and that's putting merchants, processors and banks on the defensive, argues Yossi Geller, a vice president at Paygilant.

These fintechs know how to have a good time. Novel employee benefits from the companies that made SourceMedia's 2019 list include cooking classes, weekly dance parties and free trips.

Employees at Carson Group love the outdoors and regularly participate in events like the Spartan Race, a course filled with treacherous obstacles.

Nap pods and beanbag chairs are nice, but what employees really care about are personal respect and generous compensation. Oh, and it helps to be dog-friendly.