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I am extremely excited to be attending BAI’s all new show, called Beacon16, next week in Chicago. They have completely redesigned it to be more of an immersion for attendees to wrap their hands around the key issues facing the financial industry....

In what has become a classic story in the fintech space, the start-ups that were initially created ostensibly to compete with and disrupt banks are now evolving to rely on partnering with them for distribution, access to investment and loan capital...

For many years the lack of traditional conference framework has been part of Finovate’s appeal. Attendees have always felt a bit like Nicolas Cage, searching for buried banking treasures in the vendor showcase, with nothing more to guide them than...

The three biggest fraud threats to small business banking customers are data breaches, malware, and business email compromise. Unfortunately, this threat makeup remains widely misunderstood among small business owners and decision makers.

For some millennials, the end of summer still signals the beginning of a new school year. For many of us in banking and payments, the end of summer means it’s time to throw on our lanyards, pull up our loudest socks, brush up on buzzwords (e.g....

You’ve probably read the news in the Wall Street Journal or heard from a colleague that the big bank consortium with clearXchange/Early Warning is rumored to announce their “Venmo-Killer” P2P service, Zelle, at a payments conference in October (...

It seems that with every day that passes we hear about a new authentication approach or threat. All this noise makes it easy to understand how we may end up glossing over really important, seemingly obvious factors that affect the authentication of...

All three of my kids have recently celebrated birthdays and received a bunch of little gifts. In the mix of these gifts were some gift cards and a little bit of cash. I decided to take advantage of these newfound gifts to provide a money management...

Walmart's e-commerce business, Walmart.com is struggling to compete for online retail dollars so it is making a $3 billion bet on a tiny startup

Last week’s announcement from NIST that SMS one-time-passwords (OTP) were deprecated as a form of out-of-band (OOB) authentication put the industry in a tizzy. Funny thing was that NIST did hedge a bit in its language, but it seemed that the agency...