Data and information management

It's time to establish a fintech commission.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is at an end, but the issues dogging credit unions aren't going anywhere.

Airlines have become a magnet for online fraud, as criminals refined methods to tap channels with higher payoffs.

Financial institutions are more likely than ever to fall victim to hackings and data breaches. Here's how credit unions should respond when – not if – they are attacked.

Banks and smaller businesses are simply not ready, says SmartTrade App's Kent Vorland.

Unlocking the information that technology companies have on consumers would benefit banks and society overall, the chairman of the Spanish banking giant said.

Anticipating demand from internet of things and advanced smartphones, Fingerprint Cards AB has launched a new multi-biometric technology platform that combines iris screening with facial recognition.

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

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month draws to a close, Credit Union Journal queried industry leaders about the biggest threats facing their institutions.

Severe attacks are on the rise in all sectors, including financial services. There are several specific defenses banks can employ to mitigate and recover from them.

With data collection, just because you can doesn’t always mean you should, says Equiniti's Sarah Jackson.

With simple passwords more vulnerable than ever, a growing number of CUs are deploying multifactor authentication techniques to bolster security.

Mastercard's positioning its effort as a call to action — instead of a mandate — to bring stakeholders together to produce best practices to project data.

Mastercard has launched two separate initiatives that touch the health care market — blockchain for visibility in food systems and Mastercard Healthcare Solutions to detect fraud and bring efficiencies in health care organizations.

Facebook’s cryptocurrency would not help underserved communities, despite the claims of its CEO, who is slated to appear before Congress this week.

The card networks’ new buy button, called "click to pay," is merely a stepping stone to providing a foundation for pervasive, invisible payments.

It's time to establish a fintech commission.

The National Credit Union Administration has unveiled a proposal to address a federal judge's concerns that its 2016 field-of-membership overhaul could discourage lending in low-income areas.

The Federal Trade Commission should look into whether Amazon’s failure to secure its services “constitutes an unfair business practice,” which would violate federal law, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden wrote the agency's chairman.

As requirements change, open standards can help governments feel confident that solutions are agnostic, flexible and safe from vendor lock-in, says the OSPT Alliance's Luiz Guimaraes.