Data and information management

The lawmakers, including Sens. Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren, sent the bank a letter focusing on customers' difficulty enrolling in credit monitoring and identity protection services.

The bank has been deploying artificial intelligence in every business line, conducting research to find out what consumers think about the technology, and holding a roundtable with experts to define "responsible" AI.

Credit unions have traditionally struggled to access analytics due to limited resources but that is now beginning to change thanks to recent advances.

Hint: For their e-commerce clients, it's all about faster payments.

The company still intends to shut down its data centers next year even as the recent hacking that exposed the data of some 100 million people raised questions about its aggressive embrace of cloud computing.

Speaking during NAFCU's Congressional Caucus, a leader from the U.S. Department of Treasury said credit unions can help the agency improve how consumers are notified in the event of a data breach.

Static fraud prevention has no place in the current digital world, says Accertify's Stuart Mann.

It's not on consumers to fix this problem, says NuData Security's Justin Fox, who argues organizations must get more cooperative and proactive to improve authentication.

The patent office is getting buried in applications for distributed ledger systems, a mountain of documents that chart a clear course toward making static identity and password protection irrelevant.

There's equal importance on encrypting data and securing the server, says STEALTHbits Technologies' Adam Laub.

The equation is no mystery to those in payments or financial services: Expand your digital footprint, and you expand the opportunities for hackers to damage your network.

Young people prefer transfer apps, but privacy and authentication will need to be improved, says Sonarax's Benny Saban.

The acquisition of Radius Intelligence fits with the online lender's existing focus on small commercial borrowers.

A year after the major credit bureaus agreed to strip tax liens and civil judgments from consumers' credit files, a new study says it is hampering lenders' credit decisions. But proponents of the move insist it was the right call.

Consumer trust is hard to win, easy to lose, and eroding daily as attackers achieve success with fraudulent transactions, says NuData Security's Justin Fox.

Many companies have tools in place alerting them to possible security issues, but if companies get a large volume of issues, this quickly overwhelms the ability for security and risk professionals to analyze, prioritize, and remediate, writes DivvyCloud's Chris DeRamus.

At the same time, consumers hold banks to tougher disclosure standards than government agencies, health care organizations and retailers, according to Experian.

With lots of day-to-day IT tasks and countless systems to configure, it's easy to make mistakes, says Brian Kelly, CEO of CloudBolt.

The Independent Community Bankers of America provided seed funding for Teslar Software, which supplies community banks with a platform to manage data from different internal systems.

If the retail giants' Merchant Customer Exchange payments venture collapsed under the weight of trying to create a one-size-fits-all mobile wallet to bypass card networks, then the implosion of that joint venture was the best thing that could have happened.