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Empow's security platform, integrated into a company's network through APIs or by routing data to empow, breaks down the individual components of a security tool to create an "abstracted new layer" that talks to a set of artificial intelligence algorithms.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have grown rapidly in the past year, prompting more mainstream acceptance.

Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.

Guidance focuses on five key traits, including overseeing risk profiles; a former Congressional aide says agency must be accountable.

Banks would be big winners if Congress slashes corporate tax rates and they will have no shortage of options for deploying all that extra cash.

Investors should ask questions about the market necessity of the coin, which economic model underpins it, and how transparent the company is being about its progress to date, writes Shidan Gouran, president and COO of Global Blockchain Technologies Corp.

There's talk of a bubble, but cryptocurrency creates value in different ways, so traditional market analysis doesn’t work, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin.

Most of Sterling Bancorp's operations are in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company plans to use some of the $93 million it will raise to expand in New York and Seattle.

The banks' newest offerings hope to attract young clients and keep them there for life. But they face stiff competition.

As the digital currency skyrockets there are plenty of opinions on the sustainability of the rally.