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Banks should continually try out new technologies, even after failed experiments.

Rather than ban screen scraping, financial institutions should improve secure account connectivity so that consumers can share data with the apps they want to use.

Yet margin improvement proved to be the decisive factor in a strong quarter in which total lending was flat.

The Minneapolis company plans to expand to new retail markets through a digital platform, but it’s facing questions about how it will distinguish itself from peers.

The appointment of David Solomon, who will take over for retiring CEO Lloyd Blankfein, has not altered the bank's aggressive plan to build a mobile phone-based bank for consumers in the U.S. and beyond.

Rather than ban screen scraping, financial institutions should improve secure account connectivity so that consumers can share data with the apps they want to use.

Executives at the recent In|Vest conference discussed ways to make banks more competitive in the world of financial advice.

The Pittsburgh regional detailed plans to enter a number of new markets with its digital bank and carefully chosen branch openings.

To teach its automated advice platform how to help advisers communicate with clients, the company has sought to develop a bank of knowledge about psychology and other expertise beyond traditional wealth management.

John Best, author of "Breaking Digital Gridlock," explains the obstacles banks hit when they try to innovate and how to overcome them.

The challenge in automating cross-selling to customers online is figuring out how to integrate with the core banking platform.

City National is using digital tools to smooth the transition for clients and advisers. Here’s how the bank's doing it.

The bank is rotating teams dedicated to product and service development across its organization to help implement new ideas quicker.

People welcome help managing their money, and they don’t mind their own data being analyzed, as long as the result is easy-to-digest information and recommendations they can act upon, JPMorgan’s Kelli Keough said at the In|Vest conference.

A cash management offering by Mastercard and Strands is the latest example of new answers to commercial clients' demands for better digital services.

Online lenders and other firms await news from OCC and Treasury on the future of their supervision, even as they absorb the news that Square had to temporarily pull its industry loan company application.

Founders of the startup digital bank Cogni say they have the formula for reaching Uber drivers and the like, but observers warn it's a group that won't be easily won over.

BluCurrent CU launched video banking in 2012 in the hope new technology would be cheaper long-term than additional staffing, and the credit union has seen strong growth as a result.

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