Data and information management

Personal financial management tools have long relied on financial data aggregation. Now, aggregators are hoping traditional lenders will take a cue from alternative lenders and use the technology to quicken their underwriting decisions.

Quona Capital Management raised $141 million for the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, which will invest in companies that provide financial and other services to underserved customers in emerging markets.

Much like how Amazon went from selling books to selling cloud services, the online lenders that succeed well into the future will change how they do business, Scott Sanborn said.

Banks have signaled bullishness for blockchain tech. But some say ignorance is leading to ill-informed choices.

Issuers are using mobile technology to bolster plastic cards, adding new features and controls for consumers.

The way people seek and buy music—in a store, online, or a download—is as generational as the art itself. Madrona Venture Group is staking a claim on 'buy' buttons as the next hit.

Bank blockchain leaders say the technology is solid and privacy's been solved mostly. They’re focused now on integration, collaboration and saving money.

The Canadian bank completed a months-long trial of technology developed by AlphaPoint, the tech startup said.

Fraudsters have a strong desire to take over a consumer's accounts or create new accounts to commit fraud by purchasing clothes or shoes to resell or initiate other crimes or chargebacks.

A broad range of industry players are panning an October proposal by bank regulators that would impose new cybersecurity requirements on big banks, arguing it will only slow them down.

Third party technology development from APIs and real-time digital payments are expanding, creating a new area of security risk.

USAA has granted development rights to some of its patented security technologies to Persistent Systems to create authentication and security-related products.

IBM's work with Northern Trust and Hyperledger and Microsoft's alliance with JPMorgan and others show the different approaches the tech giants are taking with the technology.

Firms including Betterment, Coinbase and TransferWise have told customers that despite a bug affecting the content delivery network Cloudflare, their data is safe.

Trustonic aims to monetize its services by supporting authentication methods such as biometrics, and managing tokens for high-value transactions,

Screen scraping has plenty of critics, but the alternatives, OAuth and APIs, have their share of detractors, too.

Using big data can help credit unions better understand which delinquent members have the assets to repay accounts in collections, saving CUs time and effort, and increasing the likelihood of repayment.

Most new payments and financial services innovation isn't tied to the actual payment, making hosted and cloud solutions a good fit for right sizing resources.

The human voice changes more quickly than you’d think, and this has to be taken into account by voice-recognition systems.

The mobile device and its embedded technology can make a strong combination to protect user ID, and comply with new European regulations for security.