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RPA changes the game, enabling the automated transfer of data between different systems, and bringing significant levels of improved efficiency to the organization, writes Christine Parker, vice president and financial services industry market lead for Pegasystems.

Consumer Financial Protection Agency Acting Director Mick Mulvaney is winding down some of the efforts his predecessor worked hardest on: enforcement of payday and fair lending rules and the Military Lending Act. Reporter Kate Berry shares the latest. 

Building a blockchain solution that adds greater transparency in transactions has the potential to make KYC and KYT processes for crypto transactions much more efficient than the system in place, writes Ash Shilkin, president of Ivy.

For hackers, ATMs serve as “welcome mats” for company networks where much customer information is stored, writes Eric Crabtree, vice president and global head of financial services for Unisys.

Kelly Coffey, who was recognized as one of American Banker's most powerful women in 2018, will succeed Russell Goldsmith as CEO of City National, a Los Angeles-based unit of Royal Bank of Canada, on Feb. 1.

Many of the factors that make Uber a natural fit for restaurant delivery don’t apply for groceries, according to Pradeep Elankumaran, founder and CEO of Farmstead.

Goldman Sachs’ Heidi Cruz takes some flak for comments she made in an interview about her other job — as the wife of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. Goldman's Dina Powell turns down a chance to be the next Nikki Haley. And a lawsuit against the American Bankers Association calls it a “boy’s club.”

New York's new AML rules clarify how institutions should monitor transactions and screen sanctions lists issued by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). But critically, it goes a lot further, writes Sophie Lagouanelle, Head of Solutions at Accuity.

The gap in attitudes and outlook on gender inclusion is wide enough that women and men in financial services often have entirely different takes on gender in the workforce, with men much more likely to have an outsized positive view on progress in gender inclusion.

Payment and banking apps are deploying passwordless experiences for convenience and some degree of improved security ahead of a goal to eliminate passwords from the authentication process altogether. We should not, however, conflate passwordless experiences with system architecture where there is no password in use, writes George Avetisov, CEO of HYPR.

Today, you can sell anywhere in the world successfully with just a single payment gateway integration, writes Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap.

Cash is king when it comes to community events, and event organizers know this; which is why they hire qualified, professional mobile ATM companies to manage the ATMs they have on site, writes Yonas Marcos, president and CEO of Star Financial Services.

TD Ameritrade's new virtual reality experience, an immersive video viewable through Facebook's Oculus Go headset, feels more like stepping onto a Disney ride than going into a virtual world. And that's probably the ideal approach for the current state of VR adoption.

Despite obstacles that keep women from being equally represented in the boardroom, there are steps they can take to close the gap.

Banks currently enjoy the pole position, but until they revamp and modernize their lending processes to better compete with the speed and convenience of nontraditional lenders, they will continue to lose market share, writes Trevor Dryer, CEO and co-founder of Mirador.

The retiring chairman of the House Financial Services Committee defends his often uncompromising pursuit of rolling back post-crisis regulations.

Intent on rapidly capturing the value and benefits of these new services, companies too often take a path of least resistance to cloud assessment and operational planning, writes Justin Yunag, chief digital officer, financial services for Atos North America Operations.

The administration says it wants to focus on risky activities as opposed to individual nonbank firms. But there are big questions with that.