Mary Wisniewski is deputy editor of BankThink. She also writes on a variety of subjects as part of American Banker's bank tech team. Previously, she was a blogger and editor at Bank Innovation. She also served as a fashion editor for National Jeweler, where she reported on fashion shows and jewelry news. Her work has also appeared in Billboard, Cracked and a number of business media outlets. Mary grew up in the Michigan suburbs and now lives in L.A. with a maltipoo, two record players and an espresso machine. Mary is endlessly curious and follows anything that grabs her. Current interests include fintech, literature, travel, good conversation, Cat Stevens and Gidget.
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The Boston bank has become one of the few to let customers open accounts by snapping a photo of their driver's license.
February 25 -
An Illinois bank has pioneered the use of a mobile app that queues up ATM transactions.
February 25 -
Digit, a startup in San Francisco targeting millennials, has launched a service that crunches checking account data to determine daily amounts to automatically transfer into users' savings accounts. Its debut points to how personal financial management services are growing up to do the work on the consumer's behalf.
February 25 -
Orrstown Bank in Pennsylvania has introduced two-way text messaging between customers and its service agents. It's the latest effort in the banking industry to make communication easier for mobile-first customers.
February 18 -
Banks nationwide are finding ways to make mobile deposit capture available to more people and faster without taking on more fraud risk.
February 12 -
The bank's most recent ATM update offers something novel: customers can redeem their credit card rewards for cash or deposit them in other accounts at its 12,500 ATMs.
February 9 -
Google Glass, the search giant's eyewear that doubles as a computer, has been discontinued with consumers for now. Even so, bankers who have experimented with the device say it was time well spent.
February 5 -
Google Glass, the search giant's eyewear that doubles as a computer, has been discontinued with consumers for now. Even so, bankers who have experimented with the device say it was time well spent.
February 5 -
More than a decade after spearheading the direct banking model of offering high-yield savings accounts exclusively online at ING Direct, Arkadi Kuhlmann is trying to reboot international banking for the smartphone.
February 2 -
SimpleFi is working with a New Jersey bank to pitch its payday loan alternative and financial educational services to employers across the country come February 1. It represents part of the trend of disruptors rethinking payroll data.
January 28 -
SimpleFi, which formed two and a half years ago and counts at least one CU among its clientele, is working with a New Jersey bank to pitch its payday loan alternative and financial educational services to employers across the country come Feb. 1. It represents part of the trend of disruptors rethinking payroll data.
January 28 -
Forget the machines. Even forget the software. Diebold's business plan for the future as touted in a video the company screened at 50 movie houses around the world centers on its collaboration with banks and others on innovation.
January 23 -
Forget the machines. Even forget the software. Diebold's business plan for the future as touted in a video the company screened at 50 movie houses around the world centers on its collaboration with banks and others on innovation.
January 23 -
The digital-only offshoot of Customers Bank combines edgier technology like letting consumers snap photos of their driver's license to open accounts with a new business model that counts on interchange revenue rather than fees.
January 20 -
The digital-only offshoot of Customers Bank combines edgier technology like letting consumers snap photos of their driver's license to open accounts with a new business model that counts on interchange revenue rather than fees.
January 20 -
Regions Financial is testing gamification as a way to teach financial literacy to young people with a mobile app that simulates a sport more commonly associated with older generations.
January 15 -
The holding company for 15 banks, which is approaching $20 billion in assets, has been testing cardless ATM transactions since the summer of 2013. Now, it is expanding the capability to dozens of machines marking it the first institution in the U.S. to take the technology, powered by the vendor FIS, into production.
January 14 -
After 18 months of testing, Wintrust is rolling out technology that lets customers order cash ATM withdrawals through a mobile app. The bank aims to quicken transactions, strengthen security and pave the way for mobile wallet adoption.
January 13 -
Even is building a mobile money-management service for baristas, Lyft drivers, freelancers and others with unpredictable incomes. For $5 a week, users can draw advances on paychecks during rough patches.
January 9 -
Geolocation can play to credit unions' strengths as supporters of local businesses. But small institutions typically lack the resources to create and test this technology and their core platform providers have yet to offer such services.
January 9
