Bank technology

The blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings has added Sallie Krawcheck to its board.

Pairing up with corner stores, street teams and college students: all the ways fintech startups and tech savvy banks are trying to use the physical world to attract people to their digital products.

Armada, a technology consulting firm in Tulsa, has hired as its president Frank McKeon, a former IBM executive who consulted with banks.

New services seek to replace lender processes that often involve manually updated spreadsheets and other efforts pieced together to meet steepening regulatory requirements for vendor management.

In mobile banking technology, remote deposit capture is ancient history. But there's one area that history seems to have forgotten: business payment automation.

Cybercriminals and hackers are increasingly targeting people, and not just technology, in an attempt to breach financial institutions.

Capital One Financial in McLean, Va., has added Amazon's former chief information security officer to its board of directors.

Regulators’ focus on having banks and credit unions offer payday loan alternatives to underserved consumers overlooks the success of Web-based companies in filling credit gaps.

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The FBI's fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone could undermine software security for financial institutions and their technology vendors and make it harder for banks to do business internationally or use cloud computing.

Community banks can't win on size, but their values give them an upper hand in competing against cookie-cutter megabank branches.

Moven, one of the most talked-about startups of the fintech boom, is looking to spread financial education to the self-employed.

Green Dot reported a larger fourth-quarter loss on higher employee compensation costs and said it will book an extra $11 million in expenses to roll out a new card product.

Commercial bank clients are increasingly looking to replace physical corporate cards with virtual ones to streamline bookkeeping and limit risk. The adoption of such solutions is a good sign for mobile payments overall.

The precedent set in the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI over custom access to a device in question opens up unsettling risks on privacy and security.

Well, something has to. For proponents of modernization and greater efficiency in the syndicated loan, bond, swaps, and private placement markets, it's well past time to put investors, banks, brokers and borrowers on the same technological page.

The online brokerage Robinhood Financial has eliminated its three-day waiting period for the use of funds deposited into an account.

Chase Pay is tied to the issuer's 94 million credit, debit and prepaid card accounts, representing half of U.S. households. Depending on the perspective, this means Chase's wallet either starts with — or excludes — half of the market.

WSFS Financial has been around nearly two centuries, and CEO Mark Turner is going for another two. Has he found the road map for success?