Bank technology

A task force convened by the Federal Reserve has made substantial progress in its first few months, but the path to real-time payment in the U.S. is still littered with challenges.

DD4BC, a group that threatens to knock out corporate websites unless it is paid off in bitcoins, has expanded its denial-of-service attacks on banks.

The Federal Reserve Board has approved enhancements to its automated clearing house service that will require its banks to process same-day payments.

New York's regulation of Bitcoin businesses is "still not perfect," a Circle Internet Financial executive says, but it didn't want to pull its services from the state as some have.

Today, American Banker and BAI begin rolling out our annual FinTech Forward rankings of the top 100 technology providers to U.S. banks.

Can true innovation happen when so much of the industry is still working on systems built in the 20th century?

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The bank's new audio series typifies a growing trend of bank brands thinking differently to get consumers' attention and telling stories on ever-more digital mediums as branch traffic keeps declining.

Bank executives and outside experts finger technology as the area most in need of improvement when it comes to vetting financial institutions' ability to withstand the next bit economic shock.

U.S. Bank has promoted Jeffrey W. Jones to president of its corporate payment systems group after he spent nearly 15 years as head of global treasury management.