Bank technology

The following are some of the noteworthy things we heard at American Banker’s Digital Banking 2017 conference held earlier this month in Austin, Texas.

Compliance, security and data analytics were the themes at this year’s New York FinTech Innovation Lab demo day.

Host Brett King talks to Bill Barhydt of Abra and Shachar Bialick of Curve.

IdentityMind Global will offer Confirm.io’s remote document verification technology to its clients.

One of the best early bitcoin companies, Blockchain survived a period marked by scandals and shutdowns to become a market leader and attract new investment for expansion.

The CEO of Citi’s innovation group says she and her staff of industry outsiders are driving change within the 215-year-old bank.

Future Family plans to differentiate itself by tying financing with a suite of products women need as they pursue fertility treatment.

Banks are getting hundreds of thousands of security alerts a day — way too many for humans to handle.

Initial coin offerings seen causing bottleneck in the network; exchanges halt ethereum transactions.

Just as we call letters "snail mail," in the future people may consider bank transfers snail money.

Vinny Lingham, founder and CEO of Civic, discusses the froth in cryptocurrency markets, the mania for "initial coin offerings," the right way to do token sales, the future of digital identity and the banking system's security failings.

Portable digital identities could improve customer experience, cut costs and generate revenue for banks. But who’s on the hook when something goes wrong?

The fintech startup OpenFin now has 40 Wall Street firms building applications for its operating system, which promises security and interoperability.

Customers of the Pittsburgh company were unable to access their accounts via online and mobile channels for several hours on Tuesday.

The image of traditional custody banks is as stodgy as it gets, but some are using machine learning to help their clients and their own research teams glean insights from massive amounts of data.

Next month, credit bureaus will have to drop information about tax liens and civil judgments from credit scores unless they can independently verify the data. Eva Wolkowitz of the Center for Financial Services Innovation and Sarah Davies of VantageScore discuss.

The chatbot at DBS’s digital bank in India handles most customer service questions but can also sense when it is time to hand something off to a real person.

Microsoft and Accenture have unveiled a blockchain-based digital-identification system in connection with the ID2020 international initiative.

Zack Gipson, USAA’s chief innovation officer, also discusses the challenges of bringing a human touch to digital channels in a brief but candid Q&A.

The announcement follows the completion of the merger of D+H and Misys by their owner, Vista Equity Partners.