David Heun

The bank is the first to offer a service from The Clearing House’s Real Time Payments network that lets businesses send bills to retail clients, who are given the option to pay them immediately.

Account takeovers and ATM skimming are rampant in cities like Las Vegas and New York. Meanwhile, scammers are targeting travelers as they attempt to pay airlines, cruise ships, car rental companies and hotels.

The new ATMs deter card-skimming fraud through encryption, individually paired card readers and a design that requires users to dip their cards at an angle.

Cybersecurity teams are using scoring systems, standard formats and other tactics to prioritize the deluge of alerts they're receiving about commonly used programs.

Even with an industry-driven standard in place, some institutions still resist parting with client information.

Under Morais, Ally Bank hit a number of milestones in 2020, including topping the 2 million mark in deposit customers.

FirstBank is working with the two major U.S. real-time payments systems so that it can suit the preferences of different customers. Its flexibility could set an example for regional and small institutions.

Email scams in which hackers siphon small amounts of money from thousands of accounts at once are on the rise. Here's what banks are doing about it.

Eligible users may trade bitcoin and ether through the company's app and also use bitcoin when completing debit card purchases. More cryptocurrency options will be offered in coming months.

As the need for easy-yet-secure mobile banking authentication escalates and consumers become used to logging in by looking into a camera, banks are taking the technology more seriously.

A new service offered by the company helps clients automatically capture payment and invoice information as well as make sure the data matches.

Though banks were not directly affected by security flaws discovered in Azure systems last week, they need to be aware of the kinds of misconfigurations that could lead to massive data breaches.

For banks that want to replace usernames and passwords with more secure options, there's hope: Consumers are becoming more comfortable with biometrics, the technology is getting easier to use and regulators are starting to require it.

The U.S.’s measured approach will allow it to learn from other countries that are pioneering their own cryptocurrencies, according to executives from IBM, R3 and Public Mint.

Many customers in health care and other sectors remain resistant to new technologies. Here's how banks are trying to persuade them to adopt more efficient payments and back-office systems.

The size of the financial commitments was not disclosed, but they add to a $425 million fundraising round that the data aggregator announced earlier this year.

Online attacks on travel and other nonfinancial industries grew at a much faster rate in the second quarter than those on financial services companies. Yet hackers pose considerable risk to banks and credit unions, especially in payments.

The $119 million-asset Ergo Bank in Wisconsin, which is working with the fintech Neocova, says artificial intelligence and modern data management are attainable for even the smallest financial institutions — and essential to competing with larger banks for consumers.

Companies like Arkose Labs say they're so confident in their ability to deter the attacks — automated attempts to break into online banking sites using stolen usernames and passwords — that they can offer banks a warranty.

Transaction volume soared at the peer-to-peer service in the second quarter. That rising popularity among consumers, coupled with Zelle's relationships with a growing number of transaction rails, could make the network a vital hub in the U.S. push for speedier payments.