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.

Despite billions in revenue annually, legal marijuana businesses have yet to find a solution to the industry’s lack of reliable payments, banking and other financial services.

Regulators are quick to laud "core" deposits and so-called stickiness, but the reality is that brokered deposits — especially CDs — have become some of the most stable and cost-effective funding available.

The British challenger bank Mondo raised $1.4 million in 96 seconds, it announced Thursday.

A new survey from seven regional Federal Reserve banks found that many small businesses are going online to access credit. But even when they are approved, applicants often end up dissatisfied because the loans carry high interest rates or have unfavorable repayment terms.

BankMobile has launched a podcast series focused on financial literacy and self-help tips.

Wells Fargo and Tangerine Bank are among those trying new communications tools that bring human conversations back into the channels where people bank by swiping and tapping.

A consumer group argues in a new report that banks are being too aggressive as they try to persuade their customers to switch to the electronic delivery of monthly statements. Now it's calling for the CFPB to step in.

More than 200 small banks across the country will be able to offer online loans to their small-business customers as part of a new partnership announced Tuesday.

The blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings has added Sallie Krawcheck to its board.

Pairing up with corner stores, street teams and college students: all the ways fintech startups and tech savvy banks are trying to use the physical world to attract people to their digital products.

The nation's largest marketplace lender announced changes Friday to its partnership with Utah-based WebBank. The revisions are designed to preserve Lending Club's ability to ignore state interest rate caps.