Big data

Consumer demand for digital financial services will inspire a wave of new partnerships.

Consumer demand for digital financial services will inspire a wave of new partnerships.

Questions about the search giant's planned use of transactional data resonate not only with wary consumers, but also with banks that are worried about big tech’s financial services ambitions, as well as lawmakers and regulators concerned about the tech industry’s growing reach.

New data analytics could help provide more comfort to banks in doing business with the cannabis industry, despite restrictive federal laws.

Mastercard's positioning its effort as a call to action — instead of a mandate — to bring stakeholders together to produce best practices to project data.

The acquisition of Radius Intelligence fits with the online lender's existing focus on small commercial borrowers.

If the retail giants' Merchant Customer Exchange payments venture collapsed under the weight of trying to create a one-size-fits-all mobile wallet to bypass card networks, then the implosion of that joint venture was the best thing that could have happened.

Banks need to mitigate potential bias in algorithmic predictive models using artificial intelligence, as regulators are weighing how to oversee the emerging technology.

Banks have to do a better job of protecting personal information about their customers' children.

Banks have to do a better job of protecting personal information about their customers' children.