Madeline Aufseeser's background prepared her well for a career as an technology entrepreneur. In her previous role as a financial services industry analyst, Aufseeser was responsible for taking the temperature of an entire industry and knowing how an event in one area could spark opportunity in another.

To keep up with the fast-moving payments industry and avoid damaging their own bottom line, it’s time for merchants to start paying attention, writes Todd Linden, CEO of payment processing for North America at Paysafe.

As chief fraud policy and control officer for Early Warning, it’s Donna Turner’s job to ensure security when consumers enroll through the Zelle app, and protect consumers and participating banks when users zap payments to recipients at different institutions.

TransUnion’s analysis of credit card applications and transactions finds fraudsters continue to steal more, but the rate of increase is slowing.

Security risk management works best when artificial intelligence and humans work together, writes Suresh Dakshina, a president at Chargeback Gurus.

Fiserv is rolling out a fraud-detection and decisioning service for issuers from Mastercard that aims to increase the accuracy of card transactions they approve or reject based on potential fraud.

The Russia probe puts a national spotlight on a Chicago bank exec; CFPB's Mulvaney and Sen. Warren face off (again) while a credit union CEO takes a surprising position on the industry's tax exemption.

Money launderers are opportunists and the real estate sector is a weak link when it comes to regulation, writes Jay Ryan, an executive vice president at Accuity.

Financial companies that derive most of their revenue from online and mobile channels have substantially higher fraud costs than do similarly sized companies that rely less on the internet, according to a new report.

Financial institutions and retail companies are trading barbs over which industry poses greater risk to sensitive customer information just as lawmakers are planning to take another stab at a data security bill.

The $12 million settlement forced WSFS to reduce its fourth-quarter earnings.

Limited data on fraud is a widely recognized issue and it was decided that incorporation into PSD2 was the most appropriate way to enforce a requirement, writes Matthew Attwell of The ai Corporation.

Aspiration Bank relies on software tools to pull data from diverse sources to prevent fraud in account applications.

The MyCUID product is intended to help membes protect against fraud and identity theft by creating a lifetime "portable digital identity" not dependent on any central authority.

In Zelle’s national advertising campaign, the bank-run P-to-P network spotlights consumers paying a personal trainer, a babysitter and a neighbor. It sets an expectation that Zelle can be used like a credit card, and scammers have figured out how to exploit this trust.

It can be hard for bankers to carve out opportunities to tackle complex problems in today’s always-on culture, but it’s important for getting ahead.

By failing to protect their customers’ data, financial institutions and others in the payments ecosystem are risking trust, the most important currency they have, writes David Barnhardt, executive vice president of product at GIACT.

The Chicago bank is denying a report that its CEO, Steve Calk, made $16 million in mortgage loans to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in exchange for a job in the White House.

Foreign operatives' alleged use of fraudulent financial accounts to try to influence the U.S. political system shows again how difficult it is for banks to truly know their customers.

The card activation process is relatively low-tech, but since its introduction nearly three decades ago it has been hugely effective in preventing credit cards from falling into the wrong hands. Among its pioneers was Ash Gupta, American Express’ president of global credit risk, who is retiring next month.