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After years of scant progress on diversity measures, Citigroup has created hard targets for raising the percentages of women and African Americans in management positions by 2021, according to an internal memo from Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat.

A solid software development life cycle method — a way of organizing the work of a software development team — can mean the difference between getting ahead in payments or falling behind, according to Chet Culver, director of application development at CardConnect.

These money transfers offer many transformative benefits, such as lifting recipient families out of poverty, improving health and nutrition conditions, increasing education opportunities and promoting entrepreneurship, says Raj Agrawal, CFO of Western Union.

The employee who made sexual harassment allegations against the agency’s director also claims Watt withheld her pay increase after she refused his advances.

Bitcoin's scale and energy consumption have held it back as a payments option, but there are advancements that can change that, according to Jan-Willem Burgers, Europe technology lead with the distributed ledger practice at Capgemini.

Top U.S. housing regulator Mel Watt is privately reassuring people close to him that he will keep his post as authorities investigate an employee's claims of sexual harassment. Now, his accuser is heightening the pressure — speaking out publicly for the first time.

Thanks to the downstream nature of technology, what was once the domain for large organizations is now accessible to organizations of all sizes, writes Ralph Perdomo, a research analyst at Nvoicepay.

Even as the payments landscape has become increasingly complicated and convoluted over the past several years, many industry players have not kept pace with their payments testing methods or tools, writes Steve Gilde, director of global product marketing for Paragon Application Systems.

The money trail is a prominent part of investigations dominating headlines in the Trump era, casting attention on banks that have facilitated transactions for various people in the president's orbit.

Installing a modern payment gateway, for example, makes the checkout process more convenient, speeding up order processing while offering alternative payment methods, saved customer information and location-specific options, writes Amit Bhaiya, co-founder and CEO of DotcomWeavers.

With increasing value propositions, use of Apple Pay for in-store purchases should continue to increase, writes Mohammad Khan, president and co-founder of Omnyway.

Since John Turner took over as CEO in July, Regions has announced several executive appointments, including promoting Kate Danella to oversee strategic planning.

When there are leadership roles for women in the payments industry, the individual, the entire company, its workforce and the industry thrive, writes Lisl Dutterer, executive director at Wnet.

CEO Nandita Bakhshi explains how the bank is investing in renewable energy, female entrepreneurs and underserved consumers.

Consumers, who often understand little to anything about the fees retailers pay to accept cards, will not care about the details of the fight and will place their displeasure solely on the shoulders of any large retailer that elects this strategy, writes Myron Schwarcz, executive vice president of Strategic Resource Management.

The Minneapolis company said Wednesday that Richard, a senior executive in its risk management office, will succeed Bill Parker in October.

In blockchain, a dispersed network of stakeholders takes over the previous owners of such services. These providers and users not only own but maintain the services that are powered by the blockchain. They also get to share the profits that are produced by the services, contends Donika Kraeva, communications manager at Dentacoin.

Proximity to the client is crucial. Only by understanding your client’s perspective on AI can you deliver a project that is truly worthwhile, writes Naomi Bowman, managing director at Berkeley Research Group.

Concern over Exobot is spreading beyond banking and across other sectors where customers regularly transact online, from e-commerce and retail to health care, writes Don Duncan, security engineer for NuData Security.

The bank continues to battle a series of negative headlines such as erroneous foreclosures, but public and investor reaction has been muted.