Investment

Banks are at the forefront of blockchain innovation, disrupting cross-border payments, trade finance and product development worldwide.

Traditional credit scoring is under siege from alternative underwriting, and TransUnion is joining the future by investing in other emerging trends such as mobile device security and health care payments.

Sageworks, a financial services software firm that provides institutions with lending and risk solutions, was sold to Silicon Valley-based Accel-KKR.

European financial institutions and central banks, along with critical European banking and payments infrastructure providers, face an increasing onslaught from hackers that has prompted two major responses from the EU.

On the first day of the 2018 CUNA CFO Council conference, futurist Mike Walsh gave credit unions a hint of the world to come from both a consumer and business point of view.

Banks feeling the pressure in commerical lending from lightly-regulated, cash-flush competitors; financial institutions take "an increasingly militarized approach" to fighting cybercrime.

Deadlines imposed by U.S. and EU regulators are giving banks intercontinental whiplash.

Even as Jamie Dimon touts the female leadership at his company, it lags in one key area. But JPMorgan women are making strides in particular with blockchain initiatives, and Amber Baldet finally shares what she is working on. Plus, heels or flats?

Bank of America on where its AI hopes (and worries) lie; Zelle founder Paul Finch announces his leave from the payments network; the one area where banks and fintechs want more regulation; and more from this week's most-read stories.

While working with new fintechs carries some risk, it can also provide community banks with an affordable way to upgrade products and technology.