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The venture capital firm Anthemis seeded 21 fintech startups in its first discretionary fund, which raised $106 million. It favors management teams made up of people from all walks of life who have fresh ideas about shaking up banking and insurance.

After some modest success pushing companies to add women to boards, State Street is raising the bar; a few key departures have left the world’s central bankers even more male-dominated; and why Caitlin Long went from Wall Street to Wyoming.

A combination of software, operating system and development tools can turn in-vehicle "informatainment" systems into payment gateways, according to Jim Carroll, chief technology officer at Mobica.

The lack of enforcement actions is troubling and raises questions of what’s ahead, writes Matt Schulz, senior analyst at CreditCards.com.

In the year since State Street's Fearless Girl statue started her showdown with Wall Street's Charging Bull, the $2.6 trillion asset manager has faced a confrontation of its own in corporate boardrooms: pressing firms to add more women to their boards.

Security risk management works best when artificial intelligence and humans work together, writes Suresh Dakshina, a president at Chargeback Gurus.

Manual means of dispute management are inefficient and growing untenable in the current security and compliance environment, writes Brad Johnson, director of solutions consulting at Centrix Solutions.

Breach investigations can be very lengthy and it is not uncommon to disclose additional findings over time, writes Mounir Hahad, head of threat research at Juniper Networks.

State-level support will give the digital assets industry much needed footing, said Caitlin Long, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley.

A New Hampshire bank CEO argues that the reform bill awaiting a vote in the Senate will free up community banks to focus more on their customers and less on compliance.

Online lenders build a seamless customer journey from screening to underwriting to origination to servicing to funding, writes Krista Morgan, CEO and co-founder of P2Binvestor.

Natalie Bartholomew, a banker in Oklahoma, has launched a blog designed to promote women's issues and tout her peers' accomplishments.

Santander's Ana Botin is plotting to make the global banking giant even bigger. Senators suspect a Wall Street cover-up of sexual harassment, and Capital One gets sued by the NAACP.

Retailers and payment service providers will need to report on at least a quarterly basis on performance against the reference fraud rates, writes Matthew Attwell, Risk & Client Services director at The ai Corporation.

Money launderers are opportunists and the real estate sector is a weak link when it comes to regulation, writes Jay Ryan, an executive vice president at Accuity.

The nonprofit is turning to banks and social impact investors to help significantly increase the size of its loan portfolio over five years.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and two colleagues are seeking more information from securities regulators about whether Wall Street firms are covering up signs of sexual harassment.

An omnichannel payment platform offers customers a unified shopping experience across whichever channel they decide to make a purchase, whether via point-of-sale in-store, online, mobile or even telephone, writes Nick Aceto, senior vice president of technology for CardConnect.

A former executive at SunTrust has joined Cardlytics Inc. to help the company expand its partnerships with other banks.

“Liquid” is the best descriptor for this shift because it illustrates the continuum of pay-with-points options, writes Barry Kirk, vice president of customer loyalty for Maritz Motivation Solutions.