Bankers can prepare for the eventual dominance of mobile technology by investing in interactive videos and moving away from monolithic applications.

Banco del Pacifico has announced plans to deploy two types of automated teller machines to help serve the underbanked in Ecuador.

The CFPB's proposed requirements threaten to trap next-generation digital wallets and cryptocurrency innovations in a consumer protection regime narrowly tailored to the unique characteristics of reloadable prepaid cards.

CheBanca! goes further than most financial institutions to foster fintech entrepreneurs. It's not only sponsoring competitions for money and mentorship, but also working to give the young companies international exposure.

Inte Q has named Steven Kietz, a veteran of financial services companies such as Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, its president.

The growing influence of nonbank companies poses a danger to the financial system, and perhaps a national security threat, BB&T's Kelly King says during a wide-ranging conversation among big-bank CEOs.

There is a lesson for bankers in the recent decision by Bitcoin ATM provider Robocoin to stop using biometric authentication on its teller machines.

Alternative lender FastPay, which specializes in lending to digital media startups, received $15 million from newly formed Oak HC/FT, a $500 million growth-equity fund that invests in health care and financial technology.

The online banking malware Dridex leans on an old technique, phishing, and an even older ruse, malicious macros, to steal online banking credentials from unsuspecting employees and customers.

A number of credit union and bank executives have been ignoring the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber Security, waiting for the federal government to issue more definitive guidance.

Chief information officers discuss their institutions' biggest challenges, the emerging technologies that excite them the most, investment plans for 2015 and more at the FinTech Forward pavilion at the BAI Retail Delivery show.

Risk management and compliance vendors were the fastest-growing companies in the FinTech Forward top 100, reflecting the industry's new priorities.

This year, bankers seemed to remember in a big way that first-class technology is critical to their competitiveness — and relevance.

The leaders of the most successful tech companies serving the financial services industry share hints about their business and product strategies for the coming year and observations about customers' tech preferences.

To identify the fintech startups deserving of special recognition this year, a team of American Banker editors, BAI staff and consultant Jeanne Capachin debated the merits of self-nominees and companies we know. These are the ten that matter for 2015.

A Brooklyn, N.Y., startup wants to eliminate fees long hated by ATM customers and replace the lost income with revenue from ads that play on teller-machine screens. Yet questions have been raised about whether that is easier said than done.

Nacha CEO Janet Estep discusses how her organization polices bad actors on the automated clearing house network, why it doesn't single out specific merchant categories as risky, and how nudging the industry toward "push" payments will help.

Regulators are expecting financial institutions to provide detailed modeling of deposits and ever-greater documentation in the next round of stress tests, bankers and consultants say.

A proposal to improve the way online banking information is shared with data aggregators has sparked a debate over a decades-old practice.

Soltra Edge promises to let financial institutions react to cyberthreats in milliseconds — without human intervention — by translating bankers' warnings from plain English into a format that security software can read.