The Financial Transparency Act, reintroduced by California Republican Darrell Issa, would require financial regulators adopt standardized open data filing practices.

Visa is the latest financial institution to get on the blockchain bandwagon, launching an interbank payments pilot based on the BTL Interbit platform.

Just over a third of consumers in the U.S. and U.K. say they don't use mobile banking applications, and just under a third say they never will. Nearly three quarters of the hold-outs blame fears about poor security, according to a new survey.