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Prediction markets are a problem not just for banks, but also for banks' human resources departments; plus, the new Basel framework may end up recreating the environment it was intended to prevent.

As bitcoin plays an ever-larger role in cross-border transactions, what remains to be seen is how prepared the various bodies overseeing global finance are to engage with an asset that operates largely beyond their ability to meaningfully control it.

A former federal housing regulator warns that U.S. banks are not engaging with the real and growing risks that climate change is creating in their existing mortgage portfolios. The consequences of inaction could be punishing.

Quantum computers are one dire threat for cryptos, but public disinterest is a bigger one.

JPMorganChase, Citi, Bank of America and Anchorage Digital are among the banks that are using or planning to work with the Solana distributed ledger and network. Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine explains how it works.

Unionization efforts at several Wells Fargo locations go in reverse, while the buzzy blockchain stuff overshadows the plain fact that customers want products that help them rather than gee-whiz technology.

Despite headlines threatening massive AI-driven disruption of the industry, legacy financial institutions with vast troves of customer data are actually very well positioned to reap the benefits of AI — if they understand how.

A database that holds the details about every attack on databases is itself at risk of being compromised, which would leave banks and other businesses on their own when it comes to network defense.

It may seem tempting to make use of advertising that plays up the negative aspects of your competition, or tries to set your organization apart from a less-than-appealing stereotype, but such messaging rarely lands well with consumers.

From transaction to transaction, it is impossible for merchants accepting major credit cards to know with certainty what interchange fees they are being charged. Until that's fixed, the interchange wars will continue.