MemoryBank, a new digital-only bank unit of Republic Bank & Trust, aims to serve the sweet spot of customers who are digitally savvy but also have money.

UBS is piloting a program with Alexa, Amazon's chatbot. Clients won't be able to ask Alexa about their portfolios yet, but they can ask questions about the economy.

The online lender is entering the car-loan market at a time when some banks are scaling back and regulators are sounding the alarm about deteriorating underwriting standards.

"I'm both," could be the answer a mobile customer of USAA and perhaps other financial institutions gets in the not-too-distant future from a virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence, key nuggets of customer-specific data and other technology.

Neither bank regulators nor banks' risk managers can afford to wait until rating agencies downgrade Deutsche before understanding the level of exposure they have to the German bank giant.

Bizfi, a New York-based online small-business finance company, announced the hiring of John Donovan as its new chief executive officer.

The new Spanish-language settings on B of A's app, USAA's new voice-guided remote-deposit capture and moves by others show how financial institutions are using technology to better serve the needs of customers.

Legal and technical hurdles stand in the way of remote account opening becoming commonplace. But banks are ramping up their efforts to make it happen, and some in Congress are trying to help by eliminating restrictions on digitally capturing and storing information from customers' ID cards.

To land and retain millennial customers, mobile banking apps must graduate from simply replicating online banking on a phone to leveraging the native functionality of mobile hardware.

Older Americans control more than two-thirds of the deposits, so why do millennials get all the attention in digital banking? Banks are perhaps missing out on a major opportunity to build value by not focusing on this group.