Bank technology

As the digital age reduces the wear on physical cards, how is it that some consumers are requesting new cards more frequently?

Readers react to USAA teaming up with Amazon’s Alexa, how a new Wells Fargo’s scandal could affect arbitration rules, a digital identity startup’s ambitions, and more.

Push Payments' Travis Dulaney discusses the Fed task force report; Brian Roemmele talks voice pay.

The tie-up comes as banks put more resources into helping customers manage their finances digitally.

The online lending platform Kabbage announced Thursday it has raised $250 million from the Japanese telecom giant SoftBank, marking its largest equity fundraising round to date.

Customers can ask Amazon’s virtual assistant about account balances, spending habits and financial questions that they may be too embarrassed to ask a human.

As an open network, bitcoin is in one sense the most inclusive financial system imaginable. But for now, transfers of the cryptocurrency are priced like a luxury good.

A jumble of security vendors and lack of cohesive planning weaken many banks’ cybersecurity defenses, experts say.

Christine Duhaime, an anti-money-laundering attorney in Toronto, lays out the reasons banks should become early experts (and assist) in initial coin offerings. She also lays out the risks, especially in the wake of the SEC’s report suggesting some ICO tokens are really securities.

A spike in income volatility has some banks working on ways to help people cope, and now the fintech think tank Y Combinator Research is planning to test a possible solution, albiet a controversial one. Have you heard of "universal basic income" yet? You probably will.

Large banks like Wells Fargo have started using "cyber ranges" and "red teams" to respond to real cyberattacks on virtual versions of their real systems.

The app, formerly known as BillGuard and a favorite of many fintech insiders, helped users protect their identities and monitor their credit scores.

Startups and open-source software projects have raised $1.3 billion this year through initial coin offerings. The real boom may still lie ahead, fears of a bubble notwithstanding.

GlobalID stands out from scores of similar companies and projects by attempting to wed self-sovereignty with regulatory compliance. If its technology works, it could alleviate a major cost for banks.

Luring developers from Silicon Valley and cloud computing are among the bank’s strategies for staying competitive in a changing tech environment.

Through the partnership, Clarity Money customers can use Acorns’ automated investing features, while Acorns users can see a snapshot of their investing activity in the Clarity app.

The fine for BTC-e was the Treasury’s first action against a money-services business located in a foreign country, and the second against a virtual currency exchange.

The federal agency's investigative report concludes that crowdsales of blockchain tokens known as initial coin offerings may need to comply with securities laws.

Some bankers fear the use of artificial intelligence in detecting crime could catch innocent customers in a dragnet. Proponents say it can do a better job of spotting true criminals.

American Express is giving its card customers an easy way to transact in cryptocurrency.