Core systems

Our FinTech Forward Companies to Watch are helping banks step up their game by offering virtual assistance, better money management tools and other solutions.

Overseers of banks' data analytics strategies share their thoughts on what other industries do a good job with data, how banks should approach analytics and how they explain their job to mom and dad.

As banks start giving work formerly done by humans to artificial intelligence programs, questions about legal and ethical implications arise. The time to impose values on, and set limits for, the technology is now.

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

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.

Next month all U.S. banks and credit unions will be required to process speedier payments on the automated clearing house network. Here is what bankers need to know.

Cloud-based core vendor Nymbus announced Monday it has completed a $12 million financing round.

New documents shed light on the recent incident in which many prepaid card users reported that they were unable to access their own money.

Several core processing vendors with mobile-age platforms have sprung up in the past year. Making a lasting mark in a field dominated by entrenched vendors will take time.

Keefe Bruyette & Woods and Nasdaq have launched an index that tracks fintech companies.

If the financial services industry wants to avoid spending years aimlessly testing blockchain prototypes, it needs to focus on coming up with standards and working together.

The British giant is making fintech startups its allies as it builds a virtual bank tailored to the needs "of the people at the bottom of the pyramid."

Private-equity firm GTCR is set to acquire Optimal Blue, a Texas-based mortgage tech firm, and it is planning more deals that would offer the industry ways to strip out further costs.

By teaming up, community banks are hoping they'll be able to get some leverage in hammering out tech agreements with megavendors such as FIS, Fiserv and Jack Henry.

Community banks and credit unions have banded together to use their combined bargaining power to wrest better terms from what they regard as an oligopoly of core processing vendors.

Banks are trying to upgrade tech offerings, from mobile banking to bill pay. But that's easier said than done, in part because the biggest core processors use their dominant market share to restrict access to banks' networks. They do this, in part, because they offer their own competing tech products.

Corezoid is courting the U.S. banking industry with a cloud-based solution its founder developed while working at a Ukraine bank.

The Clearing House, Dwolla and Ripple Labs are among more than 20 companies that are vying to play a lead role in modernizing the U.S. payment system.

One of the most innovative banks has joined a trade group that represents the nascent blockchain and digital currency industry.

PNC recently held an API Fest where it asked its employees to pitch customer innovation ideas. With the move, PNC joins a growing number of U.S. banks embracing the possibility that open APIs offer.