Penny Crosman is Executive Editor, Technology at American Banker and its publisher, Arizent. Prior to taking on this role, she was Editor in Chief of Bank Technology News. She has held senior editorial roles at Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, Intelligent Enterprise, Network Magazine and Imaging Magazine.
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The Michigan bank is the latest company to have customer data compromised through a software vulnerability. The incident reinforces the importance of attack simulations, constant searches for intrusions and exchanges of intel with peers.
March 15 -
The former acting comptroller of the currency will help the technology company move its secure data exchange technology into the financial market.
March 15 -
Community banks with meager tech budgets need help identifying the right systems for institutions their size and finding good partners, says Sultan Meghji, who recently joined the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in this newly created role.
March 9 -
New measures in California and Virginia give consumers more control over their information and may prevent banks from using geolocation services or analyzing personal data without obtaining consent first — except when preempted by federal law.
March 8 -
Aspiration makes donations to a tree-planting charity based on debit card spending, buys carbon offsets for gas purchases and rates retailers' environmental records.
March 3 -
Cold, hard cash is inevitably going away. Banks have a responsibility to help consumers who don’t have smartphones or even email addresses be prepared, says Shawn Rose, chief digital officer of Scotiabank.
March 2 -
The company is emphasizing the software interoperability of the service it's launching that caters to banks, which are making huge investments in cloud computing. It will face off against big-tech rivals in the market like IBM, which touts the security and compliance features of its year-old offering.
March 1 -
Citing strong client demand, the nation's largest custody bank is building infrastructure and a team that can help clients store and manage bitcoin and many other types of virtual currency and tokenized assets.
February 23 -
The automated investing tool is part of Goldman Sachs's effort to be a full-service digital bank and to help partners like Apple and Stripe offer financial products, according to Stephanie Cohen, global co-head of consumer and wealth management.
February 18 -
The AskResearch virtual assistant helps the company's employees quickly find specific information buried in proprietary research to facilitate their work with clients. It's a creative solution to data-retrieval problems many banking companies face.
February 16
