Digital banking
Digital banking
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Fundera, which runs a website where small-business owners can shop for loans, has raised $11.5 million in new equity funding.
September 17 -
A small Internet-focused bank plans to offer Prosper Marketplace's personal loans directly to its own customers through the bank's website. Prosper could use it as a template for deals with other banks.
September 15 -
Some of the world's biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Barclays, are exploring the use of bitcoin's underlying technology to overhaul financial markets.
September 15 -
Apple Pay, Google Wallet and other platforms have the potential to change consumers' payments habits. If retail payment networks want to keep their brands visible, they might need to consider giving these platforms a slice of the interchange pie.
September 15 -
Blockchain technology associated with Bitcoin has caught the eye of bankers, but now comes the hard part: figuring out where it can be used international payments, treasury services or elsewhere without wasting a lot of time and money in experimentation.
September 11 -
The banking industry needs to pay attention to innovation in the payments sector, said Gregory Baer, the incoming president of The Clearing House Association.
September 11 -
Banks and payment companies have been bearish on Bitcoin, but the virtual currency's underlying technology is growing in popularity and attracting investment.
September 11 -
Bankers are already planning app improvements after seeing the new features of the Apple Watch, iPhone 6S, iPad Pro and Apple TV that were revealed this week.
September 10 -
Graduate business students some of whom previously worked at traditional financial services companies have been organizing fintech clubs at universities to explore the dramatic changes in banking and to find potential employers.
September 8 -
The New York licensing process for virtual currency companies is stoking fears that firms which do apply could inadvertently open themselves up to prosecution.
September 3 -
The San Francisco company hopes to lower its costs by driving out human intervention as much as possible. To get there, it has made the counterintuitive decision to locate its operations staff in one of the countrys most expensive cities.
September 3 -
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has named Marco Santori to head a team at the lawfirm that's focused on digital currency and blockchain technology.
September 1 -
Old-fashioned banks and neobanks are both finding the battle for acquiring customers to be treacherous. So BankMobile, a mobile-first banking service, has launched an innovation lab-like division seeking new tech that could attract thousands of new customers per month.
August 28 -
Support is building for changing part of bitcoin's design, after two high-profile developers introduced an alternate version of the virtual currency aimed at speeding up transactions and future-proofing the digital money.
August 26 -
Standard Treasury, the startup that Silicon Valley Bank absorbed this month, is helping create software gateways for the institution's high-tech business clients to customize the way they interact with it.
August 25 -
The global loan platforms present an extreme example of the ongoing clash between the fast-moving financial technology sphere and the staid world of financial regulation.
August 21 -
The global loan platforms present an extreme example of the ongoing clash between the fast-moving financial technology sphere and the staid world of financial regulation.
August 19 -
In this post-apocalyptic world of apps and bots, community banks lay in ruin, fintechs come and go, and megabanks dot the vast desert wasteland.
August 19 -
Bitcoin was built on the sort of open-source ethos that has driven generations of geeks. But the same principles it celebratesa decentralized network of contributors, a transparent code baseare allowing competitors to flourish. The bitcoin faithful aren't so sure that's a good thing.
August 18 -
The London-based bank payment network Earthport is expanding its application of distributed ledger technology (a system best known for its use with Bitcoin) to enable real-time cross-border payments and potentially reduce risk.
August 18





