As mobile payments hit the mainstream, bankers should offer their customers a compelling proposition rather than wait for someone else to lure customers away.
By strengthening direct consumer oversight, Bitcoin may shift consumer protection from law and regulation to reputation and trust, and even to mathematical proof of good service.
A look at four financial technology startups reveals major trends in the industry. Mobile applications, digital currencies, small data and alternative lending are all heating up.
Three key crisis response concepts can help bank leadership teams avoid the fate of Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel, who resigned this week in the aftermath of the company's holiday season cyberattack.
The Year of Mobile Payments will arrive only when all of the key players Â-- providers, merchants and consumers Â--are sufficiently motivated to change.
Granted, journalists can be scavengers; they're nosey and can be positively annoying when they want information. But why does a whole group of crypto-anarchists and technologists think they have the moral high ground?
New innovations in data security, including chip technology, tokenization and end-to-end encryption, are adding even more technologically advanced fraud prevention tools to our nation's payments infrastructure.
