JPMorgan Chase is staking its consumer-banking strategy on digital technology. In 2020, that push will be spearheaded by a new team of executives.

The new features use automatic transfers to encourage account holders to build savings faster and with less effort.

Investors think the billions being shelled out to keep up with the likes of Amazon might be better spent elsewhere.

Customers of the online lender's payments service can select their own loan terms.

Andy Rachleff, the fintech's CEO, discusses the digital bank it's developing and the concept of "self-driving money."

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Banks would be allowed to own stakes in venture capital funds; the combined BB&T-SunTrust isn’t realizing cost savings as fast as it projected.

The Wall Street bank aims to double consumer deposits and triple outstanding consumer loans in five years. A checking account is slated for 2021, and more cobranded credit cards could be coming.

The startup has added more sophisticated invoicing features, sleeker onboarding and a more detailed dashboard.

Rellevate, a startup founded by former Western Union executive Stewart Stockdale, is forming a digital bank designed for people who make $10 to $25 per hour and live paycheck to paycheck.

CenterState and South State are the latest regionals to announce a deal driven heavily by the need to compete with larger banks that can afford to spend more on cutting-edge technologies.

Rellevate, founded by Stewart Stockdale, will offer pay advances, fast bill pay payment and international remittances for consumers who live paycheck to paycheck.

Bask Bank will offer customers AAdvantage miles for every dollar saved.

Ally and other direct banks continue to report strong deposit growth even as they slash the rates they pay to depositors. The trend suggests that the online-only approach has more staying power than its detractors believed.

Users of the challenger bank's app can automatically save money over the course of a month to cover their mobile charges.

Citi, Goldman chiefs say they won’t be pressured to stop financing companies based on carbon footprint; Vodafone bolts from Facebook’s digital currency project.

Modernizing the bank’s app and digital-banking experience won’t necessarily result in Citigroup needing fewer people in its retail bank, CEO Michael Corbat said.

Adam Dell, founder of Clarity Money and now head of product at Marcus by Goldman Sachs, explains the design theory behind the new app.

Werner Loots, the bank’s first head of transformation, is helping the bank redesign how work is done, then streamlining and digitizing as much as possible.

The fintech Sezzle has finally received its point-of-sale lending license in California after agreeing to refund consumers in the state and pay a penalty for previously making illegal loans there, the California Department of Business Oversight said Thursday.