As the search and advertising giant prepares to close Google Compare, banks should take note of two major lessons: even a well-known brand name doesn’t guarantee a smash hit. And two, online credit applications — which can be advertised on such lead generator services — need to be easier to fill out.

In focusing on private blockchains, banks make the same mistake companies made in the nineties when they favored private information networks over the open protocols of the Internet.

Hailed as a space- and cost-saver, interactive video teller machines don't always succeed as a strategy. Many banks offer them without a clear business case to justify the investment.

Vidyo, a startup whose video technology is used in Google Hangout, said Tuesday it was tapped by automated teller machine-maker NCR to provide video conferencing software for NCR's 250 bank and credit union customers.

Supplanting a 50-year-old interbank network with the technology tied to bitcoin sounds provocative. Here's why it's not that crazy.

In explaining the bank's commitment to the Chase Pay mobile wallet, an executive told investors in February that the mobile payment landscape was going to get more complicated before it gets simpler.

Banks need to rethink their purpose to serve its younger customers, many of whom are inundated with choices. Banks have a tremendous opportunity to win these overbanked customers if they can figure out a way to become the financial hub.

BBVA has acquired Holvi, a Finnish online business banking service.

Safe Cash is cozying up to banks by portraying itself as an alternative to two very different corners of financial services—the established Swift bank transfer network and bitcoin, arguably the most well-known virtual currency.

Atlanta is flush with payment processors that handle more than 70% of the nation's transactions. These players now plan to expand their reach even further, hoping to make the southern city a fintech hub to rival Silicon Valley and New York.