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Particularly at risk are service providers with high volumes of automated or customer-initiated debit payments, such as cell phone service providers, utilities, cable companies, insurance, and retailers.

The refusal by top U.S. banks and credit card companies to respond to investor concerns about gender inequity is in contrast with progress by U.K. banks.

Payment companies have lots of emerging regulations. Regtech can bring together different stakeholders to ease compliance.

Alice Frazier had been chief operating officer at Cardinal Financial, which was bought earlier this year by United Bankshares.

Amazon's planned acquisition of Whole Foods adds more power to an already substantial marketing program for Amazon.

A dad challenges JPMorgan Chase’s parental leave policy. A shareholder proposal to address the gender pay gap gets shot down at Citigroup. Plus, Cathy Bessant, Yolande Piazza and Elizabeth Warren.

The digital wallet market is expanding quickly, giving banks a chance to cement customer relationships by offering their own apps, writes Mike Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

The CEO of Citi’s innovation group says she and her staff of industry outsiders are driving change within the 215-year-old bank.

Future Family plans to differentiate itself by tying financing with a suite of products women need as they pursue fertility treatment.

Moves like Amazon Go and the e-commerce giant's acquisition of Whole Foods require banks to abandon their "defensive" innovation posture, write Richard Oglesby and Brad Margol from AZ Payments Group.

E-payments are growing fast in China, but a one-size-fits-all approach won't be a winner for merchants, writes Franklin Chu, a managing director at Azoya International.

Total System Services has extended a multi-year agreement to support Tesco Bank's credit card business in the U.K.

Mobile ATMs are generally more secure than card-based machines, but still require more security than more traditional digital transactions, writes Sam Shawki, founder and CEO of MagicCube.

Narcissistic biases can lead us to favor those who look like us or have similar backgrounds or other common bonds. This inevitably affects the quality of hiring and risk management decisions.

Passengers are warming to non-travel mobile payments, and the technology is advancing to enable mobile payments in flight, writes Kristian Gjerding, CEO of CellPoint Mobile.

Wall Street is whining about a New York City law meant to close the gender pay gap; CEOs vow action on diversity; and could a female college football player be an NFL first?

Younger consumers spend much of their time on messaging platforms, creating a risk for retailers that are not active in the channel.

There are signs the economic cycle is at its peak, which could hurt card portfolios going forward. Improved security could help, writes Madeline Aufseeser, CEO of Tender Armor.

Consumers don't want to feel disconnected from retailers in e-commerce, and don't want a complicated checkout experience, writes Jason Fordham, vice president of product at SmarterHQ.

Currency fluctuations and government policies in countries such as Venezuela are boosting the virtual currency market and putting traditional players on notice, writes Sergey Ponomarev, CEO of SONM.