Disruptors

Futurist Lex Sokolin believes buying banking products will be like buying generic pain relievers on Amazon.

Susan French, head of product at BBVA Open Platform, discussed the bank's vetting of fintech partners and how it deals with the competitive threat that their products present.

It's the latest move by Radius to extend its banking-as-a-service offering to fintech partners.

Goldman’s consumer unit, Marcus, has so far lost $1.3 billion; big lenders like JPMorgan Chase and Amex are making loans for small-ticket items like clothes and cosmetics.

Here are companies whose strong visions and timely ideas commanded attention at the technology conference in New York this week.

The bank has developed APIs to feed customer data directly to seven fintechs and data aggregators, including MX and Finicity.

The startup, Drum, provides a marketplace for small businesses to offer promotions to influencers who can help them drum up business.

Salaryo and Joust are among the companies catering to a clientele of underbanked entrepreneurs, Uber drivers and the like. Venture capital dollars are starting to follow.

Hackers go in for the kill when challenger banks and others launch retail products. So the companies are forced to step up their defenses — fast.

The bank helped raise $25 million for the fintech because of its potential to bring banks and nonbanks together in a virtual marketplace.