Equifax's massive breach and Facebook's scandals have made data privacy a big issue for state and federal lawmakers. Here's why banks need to be worried.

California and others have passed consumer privacy laws, and lawmakers in Congress are beginning to address the issue. Here's an overview of the players and the proposals.

Criminals attempted to defraud five credit unions – including two of the nation's largest – of at least $1 million.

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Amazon is focusing more on the virtual and voice-powered reordering on its sites and apps, and as a result is no longer producing new plastic Dash buttons.

Crypto exchanges are adopting anti-fraud surveillance tools as they attempt to root out pump-and-dump schemes, insider trading and bogus orders.

Leading a credit union can be exhausting. Implementing these best practices can help ease the burden.

Revolut has caught the attention of U.K. regulators over money laundering compliance, a predicament that sheds light on issues faced by the entire digital financial services industry.

Revolut Ltd., the fast-growing financial technology startup, is facing regulatory scrutiny following an alleged compliance lapse that could have allowed illegal transactions on its app.

There are a number of actions financial institutions should take to improve their application of machine learning and data analytics technologies.

A data-driven approach, regardless of human or machine involvement, is a state that organizations need to move to in order to maximize detection in the present and to ease the transition to a more primarily machine-driven future, writes Oliver Tearle, head of research at The ai Corporation.

Readers weigh in on Democrats' call for more scrutiny of the BB&T-SunTrust merger, changes to the CFPB's payday lending rule, criticism of Square's ILC application and more.

Aspiration, Wealthfront and SoFi have all begun offering high-yield savings accounts during the past few weeks.

Credit unions must walk a fine line between making interactions for members as easy as possible while also providing robust protection against evolving cybersecurity threats.

The companies have teamed up on a product to help banks, especially small ones, give customers more accurate insights into their own financial health.

The time has come for payment incumbents to increasingly depend on the cloud for more production applications and emerging technologies and choose platforms, partners and tools that will turn them into butterflies rather than fast caterpillars, writes Stephan Fabel, director of product at Canonical.

Bank of America, MX and Carolina Fintech Hub are training refugees and nontechies to become developers while at the same time showing corporate citizenship.

Figure, the startup headed by Mike Cagney, uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans in as little as five days. It intends to use the newly raised funds to offer other services, including wealth management.

The root of the credit reporting sector’s problems may be its dominance by a handful of big firms, lawmakers from both parties said at a hearing.

It creates an auditable, distributed ledger of transactions that cannot be altered or removed, enabling transactions that are valid, authentic, trustworthy and immutable, according to David Uhryniak, a blockchain services leader at Crowe LLP, and Brian T. Zygmunt, a partner with Crowe LLP.