Mobile banking

The tech firm behind USAA's digital assistant has introduced an authentication tool that identifies customers by the sound of their voice or by their facial features.

Call it the banking equivalent of a farmers market in Brooklyn: A startup is building a platform to highlight mission-driven banks for prospective customers who want to know how their money is lent.

Bank of America's forthcoming mobile app update will include personal financial management features.

Bank of America's forthcoming mobile app update will include personal financial management features.

Ralph Hamers, CEO of ING Group in Amsterdam, sat down with American Banker to talk about the company's future in the U.S., plans to grow mobile users and banks' relationship with fintech.

Fifth Third Bancorp has invested in an online lending firm that makes loans to franchisees of popular retail chains.

Both major brands are accelerating a move away from traditional checkout, and all retailers need to make adjustments for the future.

Banks and data aggregators agree that screen scraping is a practice probably best left behind. In the coming year, the two might get better at sharing data via APIs.

Large banks will soon launch Zelle, their person-to-person payments app. Will it succeed or will it be another name on a growing list of such platforms that never panned out?

When BankMobile, the brainchild of Jay Sidhu and his daughter Luvleen, relaunches on a new platform in January, security — especially for the onboarding process — will be completely redesigned.

U.S. banks are smart to take their time in embracing a model that cedes space to nonbank competitors and could put consumers more at risk for identity theft.

Community banks are increasingly looking to fintech firms as a way to offer customers the tech they want in order to be competitive.

There's no denying we are in a mobile-first era. But banks must overhaul their online banking to reap long-term profitability.

A preview of the next version of Moven's personal financial management app finds a new direction — helping people understand the trade-offs they make between short-term and long-term financial goals.

Large financial services firms are right to fight data-aggregation access, but they'll lose this fight to arguments based on innovation and "inclusion" if they do not quickly enhance their own value proposition.

Deutsche Bank has hired two executives to fill newly created positions meant to foster development of fintech products.

Mobile could become the one-stop shop that banking companies never quite achieved, blending basic banking, wealth management and other services, if efforts like those underway at Citigroup's fintech unit succeed.

President-elect Trump faces legal questions over his idea to hold remittances ransom to fund a wall in Mexico, but the industry should take the threat seriously.

Construction loans are a big source of interest income for community banks but also carry a lot of risk. A few fintech firms say their platforms can reduce the risk and improve the lending process.

Piloting distributed ledger technology is important. However, banks need to temper expectations regarding the returns.