Brian Patrick Eha

The app allows users, many of them first-time investors, to get started for as little as $5.

Using technology from the blockchain startup Ripple, the U.K.'s central bank completed a successful proof of concept—and reaffirmed its goal of integrating with distributed ledgers.

Delaware corporations will soon be able to issue shares on a blockchain. Beyond the capital markets, the move has implications for the way banks stake their claims to collateral.

The incident shows that cryptocurrencies may be vulnerable to market manipulation—and may not be ready for prime time.

One of the best early bitcoin companies, Blockchain survived a period marked by scandals and shutdowns to become a market leader and attract new investment for expansion.

Just as we call letters "snail mail," in the future people may consider bank transfers snail money.

The initiative comes as the bank is carving out a niche in the market for midsize companies.

Most fintech startups fall into one of two camps: those that want to compete with banks and those that want to save banks from themselves. Ripple is the rare exception that wants to do both.

Private companies incorporated in Delaware could start issuing and tracking shares of stock on a distributed ledger this summer.

The vast majority of financial services executives surveyed by Cognizant predict open systems like bitcoin will gain greater prominence over the next five years — slightly more than said the same for private blockchains.

Alice Milligan has pushed Citi to introduce dozens of mobile enhancements intended to simplify customers' interactions with the bank.

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

The Spanish bank is opening its APIs to outside developers as Bank of America tests a new data-sharing model with aggregators.

Cambridge Blockchain, one of many startups applying blockchain technology to customer privacy and data collection issues, is teaming up with LuxTrust to launch a new identity platform.

Sovrin, a new blockchain for the creation and management of digital identities, may help credit unions save money and fight fraud while returning power to individuals.

The funding comes as the financial services industry continues to search for safer ways for customers to share their account data with third-party apps.

While bankers are becoming accustomed to the idea that artificial intelligence and software "bots" will affect their business, a "Jetsons"-style robot is a novel feature at a branch.

The development of mobile mortgage solutions has to strike a delicate balance between self-service and making humans readily available for the stressful process.

The fiasco may hold a valuable lesson for fintechs and banks alike about the need for closer integration.

The blockchain-based platform, set to launch later this year, promises to make gold trading around the world faster, more transparent and safer.