Bank technology

Throw Cathy Bessant of Bank of America a question about a hot tech topic, and she's got answers. Blockchain? She loves it but is still waiting for its use case. Patents? The law is making us be aggressive. Swift? A call to action. And that's just the start.

Fintech firms and banks should collaborate on using alternative data sources to qualify more borrowers for small-dollar loans.

Without the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau setting specific debt collection guidelines — including what technology agencies can use — the industry will continue a practice that harms consumers: lawsuits.

Federal regulators issued a statement Tuesday reminding banks how they can protect themselves from cyberattacks.

Bank of America will move its mortgage servicing back onto Black Knight Financial Services' LoanSphere MSP servicing system of record.

Following Wells Fargo's salvo against screen scraping, one of the leading account aggregators says the larger issue is who has control over consumers' data: the customers themselves, or the banks?

We need a variety of small-dollar credit products to meet a variety of consumer needs. So the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposed payday plan must provide more flexibility.

The archaic practice of using customers' online banking credentials to copy and paste their account information into other programs has been under fire. With a new API, Wells Fargo hopes to bring this practice to an end.

Associated Banc-Corp in Green Bay, Wis., has promoted Brent R. Tischler to the newly created position of director of retail banking.

Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer John Cryan said Germany's largest lender is abandoning plans for a new digital bank in the U.S., led by Henry Ritchotte, just months after it was announced.