BankThink

Very large, established industries like financial services have strongly entrenched ways of doing business that, over time, have become inefficient, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin, adding blockchain can change that.

How most banks obtain deposits has changed radically over the past 30 years, thanks in part to innovation. It is time for regulators to rethink their notion of what constitutes a quality deposit portfolio.

The embattled Smith may lose severance benefits, depending on firm’s probe into data breach; Clayton grilled about why the agency took so long to act after Edgar hack.

There is a greater likelihood of an individual clicking on a piece of malware via a mobile device than a laptop, and this, in turn, provides issues for the amount of single sign on applications, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success at NuData Security.

The Fearless Girl sculpture represents much to many. For Maria Vullo, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, it is a reminder of herself as a girl finding her voice and as an adult using her voice to fight for what she believes is right.

The accounting firm says only a "very few" clients were affected by the cyberattack; former CEO Mike Cagney's wife, the lender's chief tech officer, is leaving.

Theodora Lau, director of market innovation at AARP, says financial companies and fintechs should consider the over-50 crowd in their app designs.

Until recently, many of the fraud prevention tactics employed by organizations have added to, not reduced, customer friction across the buying cycle, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer at InAuth.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule on arbitration clauses may be bad news for alleged corporate wrongdoers like Equifax and Wells Fargo, but surely for the victims of such wrongdoing — and for consumers, generally — it is good news indeed.

Brett King talks about diversity in fintech with Anouska Streets, head of engineering at Finkit, a unit of digital banking software company Monitise; and Colleen Wilson, founder and CEO of consulting firm Collaborate Chicago.