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Development is happening in places besides London and Silicon Valley, and that will give payment companies and financial institutions a wider range of technology solutions and partners, according to Aidan Hayes, senior vice president of financial services and technology for Enterprise Ireland.

With the use of global standards, merchants can also strengthen and consolidate their relationships with vendors and minimize expenditure on hardware and software solutions and maintenance, writes Normand Provost, liaison chair of Nexo.

Even as Jamie Dimon touts the female leadership at his company, it lags in one key area. But JPMorgan women are making strides in particular with blockchain initiatives, and Amber Baldet finally shares what she is working on. Plus, heels or flats?

Businesses are already entering partnerships with some of the biggest players in the Chinese payments market, such as AliPay, and WeChat Pay, with the goal of offering tourists the ease of payments that they are accustomed to, writes Igal Rotem, CEO of Credorax.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester warned against dismantling core reforms that have made U.S. banks better able to withstand a financial crisis.

For Whole Foods, the potential to tap into the sheer volume of new customers via the Amazon Prime premium loyalty program is unprecedented, writes Tom Caporaso, CEO of Clarus Commerce.

For cryptocurrency entrepreneurs in particular, many of whom are just developing the anti-money laundering programs they are required to have under other FinCEN rules, the CDD rule is worth taking note of, writes Laurel Loomis Rimon, senior counsel at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

The reality behind the confusing "05: Do Not Honor" refusal is some issuers (or their processors) do a poor job of returning the appropriate refusal reasons to the merchants, writes Chris Laumans, product owner at Adyen.

Women frustrated with limited opportunities for advancement and problems with sexual harassment should consider creating their own financial institutions tailored to the needs of female consumers.

Bitcoin has morphed into a store of value rather than the “digital cash” of its original promise, and we’d be naïve to think it wouldn’t stray from its original plan. Bitcoin cash has the potential to act as a vehicle for cryptocurrency's original intent, writes Nishant Sharma, Bitmain's international marketing manager.

Buyers who rely on paper-based payments often struggle to onboard new suppliers. This "process overhead" can be so cumbersome that many buyers become resistant to change, opting instead to limit their supplier choices to a small number of partners, writes Patrick Bermingham, the CEO of Adlex.

The open banking model is not very different from what Amazon brought about in retail. Banks have little choice but to embrace the concept, according to Nick Frankland, managing director of fintech at Legal and General.

JPMorgan Chase’s Thasunda Duckett is living her ancestors’ wildest dreams; Morgan Stanley could take a lesson from Citi on reining in rainmakers; and Jelena McWilliams faces tough choices at the FDIC. Plus, babysitting gets approved as a new type of campaign expense.

If an organization can’t evolve to create the level of customer experience expected, someone else will, writes Jay King, president of financial services for Alorica.

Robotics and automatically triggered transactions will pressure how data is collected and made trustworthy enough to be actionable, according to Raphael Davison, worldwide director of blockchain for Hewlett Packard Enterprises.

A multilayered approach that allows one type of fraud tool to pick up the slack when another layer fails, according to Robert Capps, a vice president at NuData Security.

The correct strategy needs to be built around the mindset that the attackers might eventually succeed, and that with the right tools, the breach can be detected early, the extent of it can be controlled, and the attack can be stopped before a lot of damage is inflicted, writes Engin Kirda, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University.

Democratic Senator Kamala Harris on Thursday upped the pressure on the U.S. central bank to make its leadership more diverse, introducing legislation to compel the Federal Reserve's 12 regional banks to interview at least one woman and one minority candidate when they search for a new chief.

Welcoming automation into our industry with less friction and fear happens when we understand its overwhelming benefit to our futures and the quality of our work, writes Lauren Ruef, a research analyst for Nvoicepay.

Manuela Veloso, head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, will join the bank in July.