Credit unions in Alabama and Louisiana announce conversion to first-ever core system designed specifically for CDFIs.

Two related and equally humiliating cases of high-level bankers completely falling for fake emails illustrate the dangers of social engineering and the need to better protect executives and other employees from themselves.

The credit union was credited with "pioneering" use of biometrics capabilities in-branch.

At the recent Google Marketing Next event in San Francisco, Google revealed a new service designed to close the loop between online advertising and offline card payments. It's a service that should have marketers salivating, but it could easily backfire.

Banks in the U.S. should get ahead of potential open banking regulation by building application programming interfaces now. A preemptive strategy will give banks more flexibility.

CityBase would like to eliminate the significant difficulties consumers face when paying bills to government entities — and in doing so, lay the foundation of a more digital form of conducting business.

The Spanish bank is opening its APIs to outside developers as Bank of America tests a new data-sharing model with aggregators.

Europe is debating whether to ban screen scraping, a practice that fintechs count on as a last resort. Innovation is at stake.

The advantage of biometrics (what you are) over passwords and PINs (what you know) can be distilled to a single factor — what you know can be easily shared.

The Virginia-based credit union will also implement a variety of Symitar platforms for business inteligence, analytics and more.

Blockchain platform's capital raising is its biggest to date; mutual fund giant now accepts digital currency in its cafeteria as CEO Abigail Johnson embraces it.

Cyber and data security provider Thales e-Security has launched a new version of its hardware security module monitor, which allows network operators to watch activity on numerous modules through a single dashboard.

'Gig' companies often run into a snag when trying to integrate payments for a complex network of contractors, freelancers and other small clients, a challenge Jeff Shea hopes open development techniques can conquer.

Merlon Intelligence, a startup launching Wednesday, plans to offer banks AI software that will help them with their expensive compliance responsibilities.

Lenders are objecting to the Trump administration's proposed $30 million fee designed to partially fund upgrades to the FHA.

Target Corp. agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle state lawsuits over a 2013 hack of its database when the personal information of millions of customers was stolen, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Better information security will remain the foundation of success as the financial services industry moves quickly to engage new business models.

The money will be used to hire more people. It is also a morale boost for the group, which has suffered some high-profile recent defections.

Bank agrees to pay $97 million as DOJ drops criminal charges involving money laundering at Citi uni; digital currency price roars past $2,200 as Japanese catch the bitcoin bug.

David McLaughlin, founder and CEO of QuantaVerse, discusses how artificial intelligence can improve anti-money-laundering compliance; the problems of de-risking and "defensive filing" of suspicious activity reports; the Clearing House's proposal to reduce banks' AML costs; and more.