Bank technology

Loyalty programs are likely the underpinning of the adoption of mobile payments, so banks need to make sure reward points are part of their digital offerings.

The era of banks and fintech companies cozying up to each other is in full bloom. Fintechs realize they can better disrupt the industry from within, while banks are looking for partners to help them navigate the digital world. Here's a look at how banks worldwide are buying, investing in and in some cases lending to fintech firms.

Eliminating paper doesn't just speed up processes and cut costs — it's also good for the environment, and helps financial institutions recruit and retain green-minded and tech-savvy young employees. Here's a look at how some of the Best Banks to Work For are saving trees while saving money and time.

Banks are playing a more active role in the next phase of fintech, both as investors and partners, says David Sica, partner at venture capital firm Nyca. That change is shaping how the firm looks at new investments.

This latest offering from Chase, the U.S. consumer and commercial banking arm of JPMorganChase & Co., is in partnership with digital car-buying service TrueCar.

The most important cybersecurity questions in banking are also the most basic: Who has administrator access? What kind of programs are installed on computer systems? "If I can't answer those questions, I'm sure the criminal can," says Andre McGregor, director of security at Tanium.

A director at Citizens Independent Bancorp in Logan, Ohio, resigned after members of management chastised him for an email security breach.

The large custody bank was one of the first U.S. banking firms to embrace robotic process automation. Here's why a 232-year-old institution took a pioneering stance on a new technology.

Technology can be an excellent tool for solving problems, like the confidence gap in salary negotiations, which one startup is addressing. Research shows bots can fully oust millions of full-time workers from their jobs and Christine Duhaime says women in banking will lose if they don't step up to the opportunity. Also, Maureen Sherry, former Goldman banker Shauna Mei and Sam Polk talk about life after Wall Street.

Federal financial regulators are incorporating lessons learned from the Swift hacks in their examinations, they told a lawmaker in a joint letter last week.

JPMorgan Chase has recruited an IBM executive to oversee its adoption of cloud services.

The fifth-biggest bank in the U.S. strikes a deal with BlackRock's FutureAdvisor to offer automated investing service.

LendingClub wasn’t alone in its suffering during the second quarter.

ClearXchange has access to a majority of the market's online banking accounts as it takes on Venmo, but there's one thing it may not have.

With flooding in a big portion of its market, Iberiabank executives detail how technology is helping it stay open for business in a way that could not have happened a decade ago.

R3 CEV, a consortium of several of the largest global banks focused on blockchain, filed its first patent on Tuesday: a distributed ledger platform designed to manage financial agreements between regulated financial institutions.

Screen scraping is an out-of-date way to share transaction data with mobile apps and services. It's high time for banks to invest in OAuth, a protocol that lets customers access their financial data in a portal of their choosing and is secure.

Artificial intelligence has gotten good enough to do some of the more mundane tasks people perform at banks every day. Whether the trend will kill certain job categories entirely or make a lot of dull work more interesting, or both, is an open debate.

New specifications for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's common mortgage application unveiled Tuesday add data points and remove obsolete questions, as well as include additional capabilities to promote digital mortgage workflows.

Companies like Prosper have revolutionized the front end of the consumer lending experience, but they have not proven able to handle even minor financial bumps without running off the road.