Technology

Above all, open banking helps financial institutions improve the user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and addressing consumer needs, writes Aurimas Adomavicius, president and co-founder of Devbridge Group.

MyBucks plans to give away entry-level smartphones, loaded with the company's financial technology, to encourage mobile payments, mobile banking and broader access to digital services in Africa, where financial innovation often moves quickly.

The internet-only bank plans to offer businesses a way to quickly open accounts online.

HSBC worked with Maritz marketing to tap AI to predict which categories of rewards—travel, merchandise, gift cards or dining—consumers were most likely to use, factoring in their seasonal tendencies and past behavior.

Merchants are interested in new payments technology, but there's still an understanding gap that keeps cash a viable option.

Users wishing to move holdings from, say, the Bitcoin to the Ethereum blockchain usually go to an exchange, and convert their Bitcoin into Ether. Along the way, they often pay sizable fees. Once interoperability becomes possible, some of these fees should disappear or decline

Guest hosts Jason Henrichs and JP Nicols interview Perianne Boring, founder and CEO of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, about blockchain trends and challenges.

Royal Bank of Canada is one of three Canadian banks with a presence in the Caribbean, and is deploying contactless card readers throughout the region to ride a wave of digital payment adoption.

Protecting customer data should have always been a priority for companies. With GDPR, they now have a framework for teams across the organization to adopt and protect their customer data, writes Shanthala Balagopal, a product marketing executive at Helpshift.

From the opportunities — and threats — in artificial intelligence to envisioning a world in which "Wi-Fi is like air," here is what everyone was buzzing about at American Banker's Digital Banking conference.