Health and wellness

Community banks generally make digital a consumer play, but TransPecos Bank, with its BankMD brand, is focusing on doctor practices, which tend to weather economic downturns well.

The data aggregator has purchased Abe AI and plans to use the artificial intelligence firm's technology in a host of applications.

Retailers and restaurants have vigorously supported the ability to pay anywhere from any device, but that technology has not taken hold in more institutional businesses such as health care. It's not for lack of trying from developers.

Blockchain technology can make it easier to validate a patient's HSA information, for example — helping speed along the process despite the traditional data validation hurdle they may face otherwise in this situation, writes Bruce Silcoff, CEO of Shyft Network.

Early-morning meetings and other managerial decisions can disproportionately impact working mothers unless bank executives take notice.

A look at how Texas Tech Federal Credit Union commits to staff and the community.

Riverside, Calif.-based Altura Credit Union believes happy staffers will lead to happy members.

A challenging diagnosis for her son prompted a senior executive to make changes at work, and Old National Bank's reaction offers a lesson for those serious about retaining female leaders.

What if you have workplace flexibility policies and women, afraid to be seen as less committed than male peers, don't use them? Take a lesson from BMO Financial.

Oakworth Capital Bank, which topped our "Best Banks" list this year, takes a broad view of wellness by providing employees with free healthy snacks and classes on time management.

It almost seems counterintuitive that a health savings account would be so attractive that it could actually be used as a marketing tool to recruit prospective employees and retain existing ones.

Following a pair of high-profile suicides this summer and a recent report from the CDC, many employers, including credit unions, are reexamining their benefits programs to ensure staff have the support they need.

The companies announced Dr. Atul Gawande, a professor at Harvard and the author of several books on health care, will lead the new health venture starting July 9. But other questions remain unanswered.

The fintech wants to facilitate loans for elective surgeries, auto repairs and jewelry purchases, but regulatory uncertainty — at the state and federal levels — casts a cloud over its business model.

Fri., April 27 is the last day to register to participate in Credit Union Journal's Best Credit Unions to Work For program.

An employee at Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union who recently completed the CU's "Infant at Work" program looks back on the process and shares insights on how other credit unions can help working mothers.

A financial health care well-being initiative Allegacy FCU has offered employees for about a decade is being expanded to the entire membership, thanks to a new partnership with a local clinic.

Amazon recently made headlines by teaming up with JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway in a collaboration that might use e-commerce tools to wring inefficiencies out of the companies' health care coverage. It's an idea that's already underway in Sweden.

The fintech revolution is now touching almost every market in the payments space. Some are still further ahead than others, so expect 2018 to be a year of consolidation in more mature sectors, but one of rapid change in those with some catching up to do, writes David Yohe, vice president of marketing at BillingTree.

JPM, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway are creating their own company; Sarah Dahlgren was formerly head of supervision at the New York Fed.