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While much has been said about the "total supply" of bitcoin as a fixed amount, the reality is that "hard forks" in the Bitcoin blockchain have eliminated this limit, writes Mariam Nishanian, a spokesperson for Dentacoin.

Pamela Codispoti, credited with launching the popular Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card, has been put in charge of the company’s network of more than 5,200 branches.

The risks of fraud, along with the current reputation of such currencies as often being used for money laundering and other criminal activities, has caused worry in the market, writes John Verver, and advisor to ACL.

We’ll view this wild rally as the starting point of cryptocurrencies becoming mainstream. They cannot be defined as a fad any longer, writes Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group.

Howard Bank’s Mary Ann Scully brings hometown banking back to the Charm City; Blythe Masters is a candidate to lead the London Stock Exchange; law professor Tamar Frankel is still shaking up Wall Street, even at 92.

The best course of action is to not focus advocacy efforts on the CFPB; rather, focus efforts on those members of Congress who support small business, deregulation and free enterprise, writes Rozanne Anderson, vice president and chief compliance officer for Ontario Systems.

Establishing trust, especially when it comes to online payments, is critical. People need to feel secure and confident that their personal boundaries won’t be crossed or their information misused, writes Rik van't Hof, director of product management front-end for Ingenico e-commerce.

Recent data breach events in September 2017 in the U.S., involving the stock value drop of Sonic as well as Equifax, are evidence of the negative impact of data breaches on the economic value of businesses. Clearly, they have become incidents of board-level importance, writes Justhy Deva Prasad, chief data partner at Claritysquare.

The biometric data, broken up into shares, is persisted separately in off-chain storage that can be controlled and sealed via blockchain references for integrity and provenance, writes James Stickland, CEO of Veridium.

Debit and credit both have their downsides, but both of those downsides disappear if you stay up to date with the latest fraud prevention and chargeback management practices, writes Suresh Dakshina, president of Chargeback Gurus.

Innovative companies are working on ways to instantaneously convert cryptocurrency into the currency accepted by the merchant, writes Vladimir Gorbunov, COO and co-founder of Crypterium.

Most merchant processors’ current point of sale software allows you to send the credit card information once and you capture a token versus the actual credit card number, writes Michael Lewis, CIO of Copper State Communications.

American Banker’s award winners for 2017 had moments in their careers where hard knocks taught an indelible lesson, they trusted their gut or they listened to good advice. Here is a takeaway from each of their stories.

Regulations around ICOs are still murky, but issuers should still practice solid compliance and due diligence, writes Gordon Harrison, an ICO expert at Jumio.

In a world where consumers are tuning out TV ads easier than ever before with streaming services like Netflix, the e-commerce giant is giving advertisers a new platform to be in front of millions of people who like to shop, writes Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

Voice-based payments are part of the "instant gratification" consumers will expect from payment and financial services companies, writes Hicham Tahiri, a Paris-based fintech entrepreneur.