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It’s been a busy spring season, no shortage of work to do and conferences to attend. June typically spells a wind down in conferences though there are still a couple this month that I am looking forward to attending.

The lesson is a story about Ant’s Yu’e Bao. According to the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal it means “Leftover Treasure.” Four years ago, Ant Financial, the payments unit of the Alibaba, launched Yu’e Bao to scoop up the leftover...

Ah, how the mighty have fallen… Or not, as the case may be. Security researchers seem to love taking on biometrics, whether with gummy bears, handy photographs, or – in the most recent case – an evil twin. Well, evil is an overstatement, but in the...

Much like how Eastern European countries were notorious for poorly guarding uranium stores, it’s become painfully clear that intelligence agencies are doing an equally bad job of protecting the vulnerabilities that fuel cyberweapons.

With this week’s news that a long known flaw in the SS7 mobile network communications protocol has been used to undermine SMS one-time passwords (OTP) and facilitate bank fraud, another viable threat has been added to the list of considerations FIs...

Built on a combination of spearphishing, reconnaissance, and social engineering, business email compromise has become big business. The FBI just announced that criminals attempted to steal over $5 billion thus far with this scheme.

The final countdown has begun to Finovate in San Jose, a conference that ranks as my favorite show for learning and recharging that vision vibe, especially in key areas of fintech that I’ll outline shortly.

Digital channels and devices have changed everyday life for consumers – dramatically altering the way criminals operate, effectively tapping the prodigious amount of information consumers transmit digitally to defraud financial service providers,...

Javelin and our clients alike have been spending a lot of time lately focused on phrases that have become veritable buzzwords over the last year. Things like balancing customer experience and security, or maintaining trust. But there has been one...

In just a few weeks the fintech world will be congregating in San Jose, California to spend a couple of days at one of the industry’s premiere events for the formal introduction of new technology companies (and new products/divisions of some older...