Data and information management

The CFPB has promised an equal-access rule for small-business lending for nearly a decade. But Apple’s recent discrimination inquiry into its credit card could force the agency’s hand.

New fintechs, particularly those that handle data, will falter without transparency and information stewardship, says AvidXchange's Steve Boehm.

It is important to understand how bias may be found naturally in your own existing customer base, and how this may affect your inferences, since these naturally need checks and balances to avoid sampling bias, argues Callsign's Stuart Dobbie.

Could the Macy's online data breach have been thwarted by SRC, a new security technology championed by the card brands?

Consumer demand for digital financial services will inspire a wave of new partnerships.

Fraud attacks and their avenue of entry are generally regarded as mysteries to most of the companies that suffer from them.

Ahead of the busiest shopping period of the year, CaixaBank is embracing facial recognition retail payments, an option that has met with pushback elsewhere.

Consumer demand for digital financial services will inspire a wave of new partnerships.

Questions about the search giant's planned use of transactional data resonate not only with wary consumers, but also with banks that are worried about big tech’s financial services ambitions, as well as lawmakers and regulators concerned about the tech industry’s growing reach.

The industry must grapple with new risks that come with storing data in the cloud. Here's what credit union leaders need to know.

The Clearing House is pushing contract terms that would give fintechs quicker access to consumers' financial information, but one large upstart has taken issue with the proposal's language.

New data analytics could help provide more comfort to banks in doing business with the cannabis industry, despite restrictive federal laws.

Banks like RBC and JPMorgan Chase can now more easily draw real-time FactSet data feeds into applications.

The two previously worked at BNY Mellon in similar roles, Scharf as CEO and Daley as head of public affairs; Michael Johnson’s demotion follows the bank’s massive data breach in July.

Consumer identities are becoming increasingly digital and more prone to privacy risks. Lawmakers cannot sit idle.

A June data breach at Desjardins Group, Canada's largest financial cooperative, is now believed to have impacted 1.5 million more members than first reported.

At a forum convened by the CFPB, several bank and fintech executives argued that long-delayed rules required under the Dodd-Frank Act can help fight discrimination and shine a light on unsavory practices in the market for small-business credit.

The right mix of AI and machine learning can help credit unions balance customer service with security.

Executives from the bank and the tech company have been working for months to create a cloud designed to address the challenges that often slow financial institutions' adoption of cloud computing.

The financial services industry has struggled with how best to explain privacy and data-sharing practices to customers. Mastercard is offering a new framework.