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Layout, compensation and training can make or break high-tech, high-concept branches, said bankers at BAI's Retail Delivery conference.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

Chief information officers discuss their institutions' biggest challenges, the emerging technologies that excite them the most, investment plans for 2015 and more at the FinTech Forward pavilion at the BAI Retail Delivery show.

Risk management and compliance vendors were the fastest-growing companies in the FinTech Forward top 100, reflecting the industry's new priorities.

This year, bankers seemed to remember in a big way that first-class technology is critical to their competitiveness — and relevance.

To see an interactive version of Top 100 Companies in FinTech, click here.

To see an interactive version of this table, click here.

FinTech Forward, a collaboration of American Banker and BAI, brings together the research, media, and event capabilities of banking’s top two professional information and education organizations.

The leaders of the most successful tech companies serving the financial services industry share hints about their business and product strategies for the coming year and observations about customers' tech preferences.

To identify the fintech startups deserving of special recognition this year, a team of American Banker editors, BAI staff and consultant Jeanne Capachin debated the merits of self-nominees and companies we know. These are the ten that matter for 2015.

Terrible password-keeping habits will force banks to beef up security on their end, a study suggests.

A Brooklyn, N.Y., startup wants to eliminate fees long hated by ATM customers and replace the lost income with revenue from ads that play on teller-machine screens. Yet questions have been raised about whether that is easier said than done.

Nacha CEO Janet Estep discusses how her organization polices bad actors on the automated clearing house network, why it doesn't single out specific merchant categories as risky, and how nudging the industry toward "push" payments will help.

Regulators are expecting financial institutions to provide detailed modeling of deposits and ever-greater documentation in the next round of stress tests, bankers and consultants say.

U.S. Postal Service employee and customer data may have been compromised in a computer hack that lasted at least seven-and-a-half months, the agency said.

A proposal to improve the way online banking information is shared with data aggregators has sparked a debate over a decades-old practice.

U.S. and European agencies shut down 410 hidden web domains, arrested 17 suspects and seized bitcoins worth about $1 million in a joint operation targeting the Tor network, which allows people to use the Internet anonymously.

Home Depot, which suffered a data breach between April and September, said 53 million e-mail addresses were taken by hackers during the attack, in addition to the 56 million payment cards that were previously disclosed.

Soltra Edge promises to let financial institutions react to cyberthreats in milliseconds — without human intervention — by translating bankers' warnings from plain English into a format that security software can read.