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Martin E. Persson, PhD, MSc, CPA (Aust.), is an assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a public voices fellow through The OpEd Project.

Amid geopolitical uncertainty and fears of a trade war, family offices also show a preference in investing in developed markets.

Fintechs grew four times faster than incumbent banks to generate 4% of last year's total global financial services revenue.

BCB Bancorp in Bayonne, New Jersey, is turning to veteran bank executive Tom O'Brien to accelerate its turnaround after reporting significant losses in 2025.

Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report finds attackers now break in most often through unpatched software and third-party vendors, not stolen passwords.

The companies are connecting their tools in an effort to streamline the complexities involved in payments that use digital assets and advanced artificial intelligence.

An audit by the Office of Inspector General concluded that information security programs at both the Federal Reserve Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are no longer effective due to critical vulnerabilities.

James Wylie is corporate counsel at the State Employee Credit Union of Maryland and the former head of the Division of Public Interest Examinations at the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Lawmakers early on Monday voted to push the effective date of the law, which would ban interchange fees on the tax and tip portions of transactions, to July 1, 2027, marking the second delay as merchants and banks continue to battle in court. 

Nicholas Dooley, CMEA, supervises Withum's cost segregation services group, helping real estate owners, developers and investors identify tax-saving opportunities through strategic fixed asset analysis and accelerated depreciation studies.