Data management

The startup Intrinio lets algorithmic traders and banks pick the types of company and market data they want to use rather than pay a large monthly fee for a broad, terminal-based service.

When Karim Ahmad arrived at TSYS last year as the new head of global product and innovation, he found a stolid company that still housed its data on the mainframe and was woefully out of step with the new era of digital payments.

Wall Street and its allies in the House are trying to kill the Consolidated Audit Trail, a supercomputer that will allow regulators to detect market abuses, punish wrongdoers and better understand why markets sometimes crash.

Ditching paper and digitizing tasks help community banks operate more efficiently and write more profitable commercial loans.

Out-of-control email chains, long meetings, haphazard approaches — that was project "management" at Exchange Bank in California. It took five years, but those things have changed.

The hearings before the Senate Banking Committee have high stakes for both companies, as lawmakers are expected to ask the CEOs whether they should be fired.

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

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.

Not all data providers are created equal, and credit unions must carefully evaluate any new partner’s technology, processes and more.