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Breaking Banks: Amazon’s new devices; crypto shenanigans

09/25/18

Brian Roemmele debriefs on Alexa’s new range of voice-activated appliances, and Dmitry Malyanov, co-founder of AdHive, shares some of the questionable ICO promotion tactics he’s seen.

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Alexa is expanding its reach. Will banks miss out?

09/21/18

Amazon's voice assistant will soon be in cars and even microwaves, but banks have not yet proven to customers they can serve them with conversational tech.

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SunTrust glitch, Amazon and Google mortgages, Tim Sloan job security: Top stories of the week

09/21/18

"Normal system upgrade" knocks out SunTrust's online- and mobile-banking ops; "just a matter of time" before Amazon, Google enter mortgages; Wells Fargo looking for Tim Sloan's replacement?; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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'Just a matter of time' before Amazon, Google enter mortgages: loanDepot CEO

09/17/18

LoanDepot's CEO Anthony Hsieh delivered a bracing message to mortgage lenders on Monday — strong new competitors are coming into this market, so they need to expand their offerings.

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What's holding back voice banking

08/08/18

Voice assistants impress at tech demos, but new research shows bank customers aren't ready to ask a speaker about their accounts just yet.

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Goldman’s gold; Dimon’s ‘what could have been’

07/31/18

Stock options offered employees during the financial crisis are now worth $3 billion; the JPM CEO says he talked with Jeff Bezos about a job two decades ago.

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Bank stocks slide; Amex teams with Amazon

06/27/18

Banks stocks have declined as the yield curve shrinks; the companies will offer a co-branded small-business card.

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California may force online business lenders to disclose rates

06/12/18

First-of-its-kind legislation seeks to tame the largely unregulated world of online small-business lending. It has drawn bipartisan support from lawmakers, but so far has failed to satisfy either the industry or its critics.

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Four companies driving the bank tech discussion, with only one a FAANG

06/08/18

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google garner so much attention that they have their own collective shorthand, FAANG. But it was a mostly different set of companies, including Starbucks and Acorns, that were top of mind this week for their financial services moves.

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The internet will be everywhere, in everything. Banks better be, too

06/07/18

Banks will need to evolve further and faster to reach consumers in an interconnected, always online world, according to industry leaders.

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