Criminals are inventing new ways to hide dirty money amid transactions for digital goods bought and sold on everything from Amazon to game-app sites. Banks need to wake up to the threat, says Ben Duranske, Facebook Payments' former compliance chief.

Tech giants have been experimenting with blockchain technologies for years, and while they haven’t displaced banks, there’s still cause for concern.

Community banks can’t afford the digital banking services customers demand; Vanguard's "banklike" cash management service couldn't match banks' offerings.

The drudgery of filling out forms and changing bills prevents many customers from swapping banks. One fintech has simplified that exchange, and banks are willing to pay it to deliver them new customers.

The CEO of the nation's biggest bank gave the fintech props for revolutionizing payments and then building off its success to provide a whole range of services to small-business clients.

The foray into digital consumer lending follows a similar move by rival Citigroup.

Neptune Financial, an online business lender, will help the global bank reach commercial customers it was missing before and could ultimately be a $1.5 trillion opportunity, an HSBC executive says.

Midwest BankCentre in St. Louis, with the help of a stable of fintechs, started Rising Bank to keep up with big banks in the hunt for deposits and millennial customers.

Fifth Third is helping consumers — and millennials in particular — save for big-ticket purchases with a new tool that squirrels away small sums into an account that can’t be immediately accessed.

Will Howle, head of U.S. retail and mortgage banking, and Alice Milligan, chief digital experience officer, will leave this spring.