Robert Barba is the technology editor of American Banker. Robert previously served as deputy editor of American Banker's dealmaking and strategy section. He joined American Banker in late 2007 as a community banking reporter, just in time for the financial crisis. Robert played a lead role in covering community banks' struggle for survival in the years following the downturn. Robert has appeared on Fox Business to discuss bank failures and the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program. Prior to joining American Banker, Robert was a general business reporter at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Stuart, Fla. He began his career as a business desk intern at The Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera. Robert is based in New York.
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The roughly $2 million investment comes as banks keep joining (and in some cases, leaving) various distributed ledger projects as they try to pick the winners in a young field.
By Robert BarbaMay 11 -
A tech JV between Live Oak and First Data aims to do for small-business deposits what the bank previously did for lending.
By Robert BarbaMay 10 -
Part of Jamie Moldafsky's job at Wells these days it taking an earful on social media, but the immediate feedback offers important lessons about the bank's products and efforts to rehab its image.
By Robert BarbaMay 3 -
Banks have long believed that the key to sparking mobile payments is better incentives, but U.S. Bank is taking that to the extreme with a new product that pays triple points for such purchases.
By Robert BarbaApril 20 -
Wintrust’s mortgage revenues fell in the first quarter, but net interest income picked up the slack.
By Robert BarbaApril 19 -
Digit's decision to charge a monthly fee for its savings help speaks to the challenge of making fintech profitable.
By Robert BarbaApril 13 -
The JPMorgan CEO detailed the bank's $9.5 billion technology budget, forthcoming upgrades and more.
By Robert BarbaApril 4 -
BMO recently won a diversity award for reaching its goal of having women in 40% of senior management jobs, and CEO Bill Downe argues equal treatment of employees will carry over to fair treatment of customers and create long-term profits for shareholders.
By Robert BarbaMarch 23 -
In a Q&A, CommonBond CEO David Klein discusses how an OCC charter might benefit customers by lowering the cost to run a student loan refinancing business.
By Robert BarbaMarch 17 -
The venture capital firms of Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, along with the fund backed by Google’s chairman, have invested in a firm that helps banks secure their cloud technology.
By Robert BarbaMarch 14