Data and information management

A new blockchain network that promises to compete with Ethereum is taking the token sale trend to the next level.

Artificial intelligence can help wealth managers serve clients better, but some say the technology is too immature to be useful right now.

Some merchants, issuers and processors are concerned that the card brands will tout their "ownership" of payment card prefixes as a basis for requesting that mobile transactions on their cards be routed to their networks and screened through tokenization services they provide.

The companies will use an application programming interface to let Chase customers send the data to the apps Finicity supports, including personal financial services apps and income verification tools.

It’s not speed, which will steadily if not exponentially increase in the near term. It’s the centralists that are holding onto their roles as reconcilers of data.

Using technology from the blockchain startup Ripple, the U.K.'s central bank completed a successful proof of concept—and reaffirmed its goal of integrating with distributed ledgers.

Guests include Carl Ryden of PrecisionLender, Felipe Echandi Lacayo of PanaFintech, Sam Shawki of Magic Cube.

Community banks are less likely to close branch locations than their larger counterparts. But those branches should mix technology with the homespun local flavor customers have come to expect.

Readers this week highlighted the need for banks to upgrade payments systems, debated a small bank’s decision to ditch its legacy core vendor, lamented populist initiatives of the GSEs, and more.

EMV chips can take a company only so far, leading Oberthur to consider Morpho's expertise in biometrics and embedded security methods.

Military and intelligence agencies around the world have grappled with data breach challenges for years, and have relied on Secure KM (Keyboard/Mouse) switches to manage the risk.

Enabling peers to compare notes will help ID management specialists at regional, midtier banks who face the same requirements as large banks but command smaller operating budgets, IDPro’s founder says.

More e-commerce and multi-channel merchants are accepting payments from mobile devices, even though they haven't addressed all of the security gaps inherent to the technology.

U.S. banks and credit unions face a tricky calculus in deciding whether to adopt expensive technology aimed at reducing online fraud.

Banks are getting hundreds of thousands of security alerts a day — way too many for humans to handle.

Just as we call letters "snail mail," in the future people may consider bank transfers snail money.

U.S. banks face a tricky calculus in deciding whether to adopt expensive technology aimed at reducing online fraud.

Vinny Lingham, founder and CEO of Civic, discusses the froth in cryptocurrency markets, the mania for "initial coin offerings," the right way to do token sales, the future of digital identity and the banking system's security failings.

The image of traditional custody banks is as stodgy as it gets, but some are using machine learning to help their clients and their own research teams glean insights from massive amounts of data.

The CFPB and others believe alternative data could provide more credit to the unbanked. Small banks and credit unions, however, have lingering concerns about breaking from traditional underwriting.