Widespread sharing of financial and other data creates enormous privacy risks for consumers, many of whom have no real understanding of the danger.

The 50 companies that made American Banker’s annual list are being recognized for establishing strong workplace cultures, offering robust benefits packages and giving employees the room to do their jobs well.

Companies on the Best Places to Work in Fintech list offer sabbaticals or generous vacation time, which helps attract young talent and lets veteran employees re-energize.

Breaking barriers to education unites the team at Mpower Financing, an international student loan company with employees from more than a dozen countries that is ranked No. 1 on this year's Best Places to Work in Fintech.

Get your notepad ready: these are the speakers whose insights you’ll want to remember at this year’s event in Austin.

10 things to know in May: The Credit Union Women’s Leadership Alliance is set to launch its coaching program, U.S. Senate confirms first Black appointee to Federal Reserve, and more.

The Australian bank has co-developed a portal to all the knowledge trapped inside multiple virtual assistants throughout the company.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair gave a thorough accounting of the Fed’s thoughts on issuing its own digital currency without committing to any specific course of action.

The agency recently updated a policy document to include technological innovation as a top priority and said it was considering creating a safe harbor for those who develop new products to fight financial crimes.

Researchers may now have more leeway in helping banks uncover vulnerabilities to their systems, but legal gray areas remain.

The payments startup Bolt Financial is cutting staff, its CEO said in a message to employees on Wednesday. 

Under the deal, participating members of the BancAlliance network will be able to buy interests in loans originated on the digital lender’s platform.

The state of Connecticut recently handed the small-dollar marketplace loan provider a cease-and-desist order, but Rodney Williams says his company is getting much-needed emergency funds into marginalized communities at a low total cost, and that the rules need to be rewritten.

Banks need to come together to create interoperable tokenized deposits, as part of an effort to bridge the gap between traditional finance and blockchain.

Several federal agencies have recently stepped up requirements on banks to notify regulators and the public when they fall victim to cybersecurity incidents.

The startup, whose name suggests its purpose of helping companies attract and retain employees, lets companies offer cash incentives to talented recruits that are vested over several years, motivating them to stay in their jobs for a while.

The company, which enjoys a large market share as a data aggregator to fintechs and banks, is adding account onboarding, identity verification and fraud detection to the array of services it offers.

Organizations are driving to become fully automated enterprises, but single point solutions are putting that goal at risk.