The once-icy relationship between banks and fintechs thawed quite a bit in the last year. The next step might be for banks to start buying startups.

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

A new app aims to modernize the automobile financing process by allowing car shoppers to get credit approval on their phones.

Royal Bank of Scotland will soon launch a customer pilot of Luvo, a chat bot taught to answer customers' questions in near-real time and route more complex requests to advisers using IBM Watson Conversation.

B of A's Merrill Lynch unit by early next year plans to join Charles Schwab, Fidelity Investments, BBVA Compass, U.S. Bancorp and others in offering clients a low-cost investing app and online service.

Prosper Marketplace is closing the secondary market for its loans, citing a lack of demand among investors.

Simple, the digital-only "neobank" owned by BBVA Compass, is testing out its second product, a contemporary twist on the traditional joint account.

USAA has expanded its voice-controlled digital assistant to PC users. The move is just another example of how banks are increasingly relying on bots to help serve their clients.

A new wave of exciting innovation is presenting businesses with opportunities to improve processes and the consumer experience.

The Chamber of Digital Commerce has opened a new outpost in the nation's capital. But instead of looking for a staid law office, the bitcoin advocacy group formed a partnership with the local incubator 1776 to launch the DC Blockchain Center.