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A look at the difference in responses between employees working for companies that made the list and those that did not.

When Redtail Technology moved into its new building 18 months ago, CEO Brian McLaughlin ensured it had homey touches, like comfortable seating, a basketball court and slides.

Some companies on SourceMedia’s Best Fintechs to Work For list offer their employees extra time off to live boldly.

Three years ago, the New York-based fintech started organizing a monthly gathering for its female employees. The meetings have helped participants find role models.

A collaboration between SourceMedia and the Best Companies Group, the list is derived from reviews of employer benefits and policies and comprehensive surveys filled out by the companies' employees.

Every week starts and ends the same way — with meetings where departments can share successes and challenges. It’s one way the payments company ensures cross-collaboration.

Will Howle, head of U.S. retail and mortgage banking, and Alice Milligan, chief digital experience officer, will leave this spring.

By using the dark web as a cybersecurity tool, instead of an ungovernable threat, financial institutions can intercede and interdict compromised card data post-breach, pre-fraud, writes Ted Kirk, vice president of strategic partnerships for Advanced Fraud Solutions.

Mel Watt calls FHFA watchdog “sexist,” after it concludes he’s guilty of sexual harassment. State Street sues the "Fearless Girl" sculptor. Banks big and small face mounting pressure on gender pay gap and board diversity. And another top 40 U.S. bank might get a female CEO.

Modern, global merchants need comprehensive, integrated frameworks that reduce costs, manage risk and exposure, provide direct connectivity and redundancy to optimize reliability and keep control over the customer experience closer to the merchant, according to Eric Rosenthal, managing director of the Americas at Rapyd.

While most early GDPR fines have been relatively low, a larger more recent fine at Google is a sign of larger levies to come, according to Karen Neuman and Federica De Santis from the privacy and cyber security practice at Goodwin.

Whether they process cards, bank accounts, cash, or whatever comes next, digital payment systems must be reliable, flexible and ever-advancing, writes Michael Kaplan, chief revenue officer at PayNearMe.

When a cryptocurrency exchange is unregulated, you need to investigate its security practices yourself, writes Phillips Nizer LLP's Patrick Burke.

The administration is sending conflicting signals on whether it has a plan to overhaul the housing finance system, further complicating an already complex debate.

Crooks are using techniques that move quickly, making AI a good bet when searching through many layers of transaction data, according to Jie Wu, a director at GoodData.

With real-time payments advancing, processors need to shore up security, according to David Worthington, vice president of payments at Rambus.

Former FHFA Director Mel Watt attempted to coerce an agency employee to engage in a romantic relationship with him, according to an inspector general report.

Unauthorized exposure of any type of customer data, for any period of time, is a serious issue, writes Carl Wright, chief commercial officer of AttackIQ.

While payments firms must navigate political and regulatory waters, consumers and merchants are best served by a competitive free market free of politics, with minimalist regulators playing the role of the night watchman, writes Eric Grover, a principal at Intrepid Ventures.

The company has appointed President Gaye Erkan to its board of directors, potentially positioning her to replace longtime CEO James Herbert when he eventually retires.