Technology

Paying for items with your palm or face isn't commonplace yet, but it's coming. What banks need to know.

Well-regulated stablecoins will open the door to a wide range of financial activities, including 24/7 global markets for any asset class imaginable. Traditional banks should take note.

The growing use of generative and agentic AI in banks is setting off some alarms.

Stablecoin issuers often use Treasury bills as backing reserves. That could put pressure on other parts of the financial system if the industry continues at its current growth trajectory.

The timing of the breach at Connex aligns with data breaches by threat actor ShinyHunters, which uses phone calls to socially engineer victim organizations.

The former head of resolutions at the FDIC has high hopes for a bank that's been embroiled in the Synapse disaster.

The payment company is collaborating with Brazil's national real-time payment network to reach more e-commerce merchants, while adding Affirm as an option to its in-store point of sale system. That, and more in the American Banker global payments and fintech roundup.

The scams are becoming increasingly harder to detect, as fraudsters mimic authentic communications from banks.

The lender, which uses existing credit balances to fund installment loans, has linked to Samsung Pay and plans other partnerships in the future to build a global merchant network.

New data from American Banker finds that use cases for intelligent automation are growing across banks and credit unions alike, such as fraud and lending.