Technology

Counter to the trend — pioneered by Amazon — of launching cashierless technology in small stores to keep traffic under control, the U.K. supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has launched a trial of cashierless mobile shopping in one of its busy London stores, Clapham North Station Local.

By transforming a traditional treasury into a cashless economy, cities will open the doors to wider and faster adoption of more complex smart city innovations, writes Sumeet Puri, senior vice president and global head of systems engineering at Solace.

To keep pace with its peers, Morgan Stanley is ramping up its online offerings in banking and wealth management.

The OCC required the company to raise more capital and complete a CRA plan. Varo Bank still needs FDIC and Fed approval before opening.

Giro Zrt, a Hungarian financial services industry organization that operates a domestic automated clearing house payments network, is teaming with the payments service provider Nets A/S to create a national instant payments service.

Minal Hasan, a lawyer turned prominent fintech venture capitalist, has strong views on founder dramas, cryptocurrency, and why banks need to step up their technology game.

A cryptocurrency expert languishing in a Greek jail may have a vantage point on a tantalizing issue — how Russians in U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s crosshairs used Bitcoin to obscure their money trail.

Google has a validated and ready to roll out mobile payments model that it has developed in less than one year, writes Daniel Döderlein, CEO and founder of Auka.

Venture capitalist Spiros Margaris talks about which regions are leading in fintech and AI; Byron Reese, CEO of GigaOm, discusses his new book about AI.

The company built a patch within 24 hours of being alerted to a vulnerability in messaging software used by many banks and credit unions. Fiserv is looking into how this happened while addressing speculation about whether consumer data is still threatened.