Financial institutions can improve monitoring of suspicious activity and potentially risky customers using algorithms, but they need to treat this new technology with caution.

Julieann Thurlow, CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank, argues that tech-savvy lenders like SoFi can draw in low-risk borrowers with a fast, simple online process.

What advantages will this new system bring to the U.K. payments market? The U.K. has traditionally struggled to find ways to break the major banks’ monopoly on payments.

Black Knight has acquired HeavyWater, a developer of artificial intelligence and machine learning technology for the mortgage industry, and plans to incorporate the startup's borrower data verification and other automation capabilities into its existing product suite.

In opening offices in several German cities, Silicon Valley Bank is seeking out familiar kinds of high-tech customers in a new market. This is a venture any midsize bank could learn from.

Mastercard is launching AI Express, a service to help companies develop and deploy tailored payment solutions leveraging artificial intelligence.

Rather than hooking into the browser process, BackSwap takes the place of the user and enters the same commands into the browser that a user would if they wanted to hack themselves.

Merchants, banks, fintechs and card networks may crave digital payments' treasure trove of data over cash's simple anonymity, but any weakness in a centralized ecosystem threatens the entire network, as Visa learned late last week.

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With a lighter compliance burden, small banks could shift tech spending to customer-facing innovation.

There are forward-looking regulations that govern the landscape of how personal data gets collected, processed, analyzed, stored, retained, monetized, and accessed by any organization that collects data in the EU. Its goal is the protection of individual privacy and will require a multi-year strategy, according to Bassim Alkhafaji, a partner at Andra Capital.

Many of these attacks have been server side ransomware and other sophisticated hacks, leading companies to examine the immature security processes, the technology of application security, and the insufficient expertise of development, writes Jeannie Warner, the security manager at WhiteHat Security.

Belgian security researcher Xavier Mertens has discovered a piece of a banking malware campaign that appears to target customers of various U.K. banks.

The $142-billion asset bank expects to deepen relationships with existing customers and add new ones, by collaborating with Intellect Global Transaction Banking to develop new services.

Hyperledger, an open-source organization focused on blockchain technology, has added 16 members.

Two major Canadian banks, Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial, have become victims of hacks that affected some 50,000 and 40,000 customers respectively. Neither bank decided to pay the ransom by the hackers' May 28 deadline.

Promontory MortgagePath fills management roles for bank relations, technology and outsourced services opportunities.

Credit unions undergoing core conversions may stick with third-party vendors for certain services, but in some cases that can cause more harm than good.

Virtual reality is seeing significant leaps in technology, with immediate applications to gaming and entertainment that foreshadow richer applications for VR in commerce.

Unless near zero-friction identity security is embraced, connected devices cannot be used for payments in a substantial way, according to Xavier Larduinat, manager for innovation at Gemalto.