Bank technology

Can preferential loan terms encourage environmentally friendly practices among corporate borrowers? Barclays, BNP Paribas, and Standard Chartered are working with fintechs — and even Prince Charles — to develop a blockchain to answer that question.

The cryptocurrency proved so popular it triggered two temporary trading halts on CBOE's Global Markets exchange.

In a rare show of public support for a security technology, the banks are leading a $40 million funding round for Menlo Security, provider of browser technology that keeps malware at bay — and they’re using it, too.

For the second week in a row, the CFPB's leadership shakeout dominated readers' attention, while a regional banker discussed efforts to fight hacking and the impact of the tax cuts, and bitcoin's price soared.

Tether's $31 million hack gave bitcoin skeptics plenty to crow about. But experts say bad security is to blame, not digital assets.

HSBC Bank is joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Industrial Liaison Program as part of a broader effort to invest more in technology, data and analytics.

Jon Zanoff, managing director of Barclays New York Accelerator, has been coaching fintech startups for decades. He offers tips on how to make it as a fintech startup and run an effective accelerator.

Bank of America is launching several upgrades to its mobile app meant to make the product more fun and essential to customers' daily lives. It is also expanding digital-only branches through which customers communicate with staff by video.

After two century-old community institutions merged in 2010, they never suspected it would take seven years before their operating systems got along.

An ex-regulator’s stern warning about the risks of sharing consumer information with fintechs has prompted debate over common security standards for banks and nonbanks, better data tracking and new liability insurance products.

With millions of Alexa and Google Home devices now in use, first-mover banks are rapidly developing services to let customers control their finances using only their voice — even if there are still many kinks to work out.

Describing cybersecurity as the biggest risk facing the financial sector, Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said regulators should more actively facilitate conversations between banks and national security agencies to boost digital security.

The CFTC's greenlighting of bitcoin futures could open the floodgates for Wall Street, and digital-asset die-hards see a plot to take control.

Dizzying trading in bitcoin fed the bubble argument, but now that Nasdaq is the third Wall Street player to say it is designing a financial instrument around it, banks may be forced to reassess cryptocurrencies.

Virtual assistants at banks in Israel, Canada and Hong Kong are getting smarter thanks to artificial intelligence.

Jayne Opperman is the third new tech hire the bank has made this month.

One estimate says 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs will go unfilled by 2021. Banks are looking to military veterans, universities and even high schools to help fill the gap.

Cordray picking his own interim successor sets off a firestorm; co-head of global banking leaves the U.K. bank after only 18 months.

Borrowing from the startup world and some popular TV shows, Citigroup is encouraging employees to pitch innovative ideas to a panel of senior execs who could give them the green light to start work.

The digital-currency startup, which markets software to banks, appears keen to signal that it wants to play by the rules.