The Bridgeport, Conn., company is developing a specialty in banking technology businesses. Like so many other small regionals with ambitious growth plans, it faces a tricky balancing act: how to take creative risks without getting in over its head.

In a world where most financial matters can be handled with a few taps on an app, debt collection appears stuck in the last century.

The purchase of Michigan-based Compliance Systems Inc. is intended to better help credit unions stay on top of regulatory changes.

Blockchain may have received its most exposure as the distributed ledger technology at the foundation of cryptocurrency exchanges, but its use cases are advancing into other data-driven or supply-chain industries pursuing the Internet of Things.

Date, now a venture capitalist, worked with the lending software company's CEO, Dan O'Malley, at Capital One in the 2000s.

Consumers are already overwhelmed with marketing messages. Here's how to break through.

Traditional screening solutions are not able to process such a huge influx of records quickly enough, creating a queue that the system has to work through, slowing down the customer experience, writes Vincent Gaudel, a compliance expert at Accuity.

The comments by Brent McIntosh, Treasury's general counsel, are at odds with concerns by state regulators and consumer groups who fear that a national standard on how firms handle data breaches could weaken pre-existing rules.

Warren Kornfeld, senior vice president at Moody’s Investors Service, explains why banks’ fear of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and other tech giants is legitimate.

While apps are still a popular way for customers to order and pay, other options are emerging because they're a natural fit for restaurant patrons, many of whom are already heavy users of text, social media and voice technology.

The continued trend of “spear phishing” and “catfishing” only serves to highlight the complex work required to identify genuine from fraudulent, writes Steven Goddard, product manager for risk at The ai Corporation (ai).

Zack Bishop has experience in blending the systems of merged banks, according to Synovus, which this summer announced its first whole-bank deal in more than a decade.

As payment stakeholders show an interest in using fingerprint technology to improve identity protection, NEXT Biometrics and MK Group plan to collaborate on biometric smart cards for banking and other applications.

Traditional institutions shouldn’t just develop stand-alone online banks on top of existing infrastructure. They’d be best served building these “parallel” banks from the ground up.

His knack for public policy, dedication to technological improvements once considered the province of big banks, and willingness to tear up a business model that he and his father built make him our top Best in Banking honoree.

The Michigan company has committed $50,000 to the partnership over the next two years amid a big push to modernize its product and service offerings.

There's never a good time to expose customer data, but the incident Amazon disclosed Wednesday could upend two major events: Black Friday/Cyber Monday and a reported effort to get merchants to accept Amazon at the point of sale.

MyBucks and its New Finance Bank subsidiary have opened 4,200 digital banking accounts and provided 72 loans at a Malawi branch said to be the first of its kind in a refugee camp.

Across all age groups, many consumers still prefer shopping in stores for various reasons. But even when going into a brick-and-mortar store, these consumers don't leave their digital habits behind; many still prefer to pay by mobile or wearable when the option presents itself.