Scandal, business models gone awry, missing money and executive shake-ups — 2016 had it all. Here are the financial services executives or groups of them who took the heat and will be looking for better times in 2017.

With identity management now established as a distinct industry, it needs an organization to nurture its practitioners like those that exist for the privacy and security sectors.

The scourge of account takeover isn't lost on Citizens Union Bank, which is involving its business customers — or rather, their biometric traits — in improving the security of their accounts.

Female entrepreneurs who apply for loans online and are evaluated by an automated system get a bigger share of online credits than they do traditional in-person bank loans. It could be a sign that automated credit decisions are fairer.

Tim Pawlenty, the head of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Minneosta governor, sent a letter Monday to President-elect Donald Trump requesting that he take steps to harmonize government cybersecurity requirements.

When the financial services industry started paying attention to blockchain technology, many companies, seemingly as a reflex, sought patent protection for their ideas.

As long as there has been mobile commerce, there have been calls for different stakeholders to share competitive turf in the name of universal acceptance.

Tim Pawlenty, the head of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Minneosta governor, sent a letter Monday to President-elect Donald Trump requesting that he take steps to harmonize government cybersecurity requirements.

Tim Pawlenty, the head of the Financial Services Roundtable and former Minneosta governor, sent a letter Monday to President-elect Donald Trump requesting that he take steps to harmonize government cybersecurity requirements.

The appeal of information pathways such as the internet were seen as possibly bringing about a "comeback" for artificial intelligence in financial services — in the 1990s.

The Oklahoma-based credit union will implement a variety of Fiserv solutions, including Portico, making it the first credit union to integrate commercial lending modules into that solution.

As retailers, banks and technology companies continue to suffer data breaches, issuers and merchants need to take extra care when selecting payment vendors.

Facing security challenges at its member banks and competition from other tech providers, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication [Swift] plans to put its best foot forward in 2017.

Sudden jolts in the currency market may be becoming more frequent, with at least three flash crashes over the course of 14 months. But there is some hope in finding out their causes more quickly.

Much of regtech focuses on automating compliance functions, but the human eye is still needed in some cases. Royal Bank of Canada and D+H have developed an assessment tool designed to help employees do their jobs better.

Online shoppers can expect fraudsters to be at the height of their creativity during the 2016 holiday season.

The technology vendor helped 49 credit unions convert their core banking systems during 2016, including United Savings CU in Fargo, N.D., and Streator Community CU in Streator, Ill.

The tech firm behind USAA's digital assistant has introduced an authentication tool that identifies customers by the sound of their voice or by their facial features.

The latest news about Yahoo’s massive 2013 data breach – which impacted more than 1 billion users – is a reminder to credit unions that there is no end to crooks (cyber or otherwise) trying to compromise consumers’ data

Yahoo! Inc. disclosed a second major security breach that may have affected more than 1 billion users, another blow to the company's reputation as it nears the sale of its main web businesses to Verizon Communications Inc.