Regtech

Bennett Bradley, BB&T's chief digital officer, discusses how an investment in Enigma, which helps companies leverage data, fits within the regional bank's fintech strategy.

The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office employs software that can read discovery documents about 2,000 times faster than human lawyers and can find previously unknown patterns between people, enabling quicker investigations and penalties.

State regulators said Wednesday they will refile a lawsuit against the OCC, attempting to block the agency's new federal bank charter for fintechs.

A family-owned community bank in Oklahoma is testing a Spotify-like service by fintech Meed that allows customers to pay $9.95 a month to obtain digital banking services.

Concentration risk, threats to data privacy and the potential for discrimination are among the unintended consequences of letting fintechs and tech giants dabble in financial services without bank-like regulation, an expert says.

It is critical that banks blend data science and their industry knowledge to better identify and mitigate compliance risk, says a director at Promontory Financial Group.

Many financial institutions are unaware that they're banking marijuana-related businesses, pot bankers and regtech experts say.

IBM claims that by monitoring customer behavior first and foremost, banks can make suspicious activity reporting far more accurate.

Proximity to the client is crucial. Only by understanding your client’s perspective on AI can you deliver a project that is truly worthwhile, writes Naomi Bowman, managing director at Berkeley Research Group.

Bci Miami is one of the first banks in the U.S. to publicly acknowledge using AI this way, when many still consider the technology to be new, risky and unsanctioned by regulators.

A week after the Treasury Department laid out a plan for federal fintech regulation, it is already unclear which agency is leading the charge.

In recent weeks, several banks and fintechs have added new branches or new units, and in the process brought aboard new leadership. Here's a roundup of key hires.

The bureau announced the creation of the Global Financial Innovation Network for regulators to discuss joint policy work and offer a cross-border product testing process.

The skeptics keep waiting for investment in financial startups to dry up, but it doubled in the first half of 2018. KPMG's Safwan Zaheer explains why.

The Trump administration is making more than 80 recommendations to encourage financial innovation within a regulated space, including endorsing the creation of a federal fintech charter.

Federal bank regulators consider roughly a dozen new rules; firms tout tools to help financial institutions bank legal marijuana-related businesses; Mick Mulvaney defends CFPB enforcement powers; and more from this week's most-read stories.

Several firms are touting tools to help financial institutions bank legal marijuana-related businesses, an industry expected to yield $10 billion in retail sales this year.

Europe's new data privacy rules have forced banks to get creative to protect sensitive data from in appropriate access or breaches.

Goldman’s next CEO pushes for more women in senior roles. Fifth Third’s program to retain new moms is working. And there’s good news and bad news at Bank of America, as it bulks up on female summer interns but pays out millions to an exec fired over sexual harassment claims.

Consultants Jo Ann Barefoot and Henri Arslanian explain why fintech startups have taken on compliance challenges.