News Topic: Bank technology

For high-value, low-volume transactions, that is. Big Blue formally launched the platform Tuesday, but the custody bank has been using it for months, as has a group of Canadian institutions. ... Read full article

Wei Ke, a partner with Simon-Kucher & Partners, explains how banks can help consumers get over their price sensitivity. ... Read full article

Like many financial companies, the brokerage wants to go where customers are. Since that means communicating with them via a third-party platform, it is working through privacy and security issues. ... Read full article

Cardtronics CEO Steven Rathgaber will retire at the end of the year and will be replaced by Edward West, the ATM operator's current chief operations and financial officer. ... Read full article

Business customers are demanding technology that's as good as what they use in their personal lives. ... Read full article

The Japanese exchange bitFlyer has processed $30 billion in bitcoin trades so far in 2017. Now it has its sights set on American crypto enthusiasts. ... Read full article

The company says the tracking devices are a way to reduce office space and know when shared workstations are free, but "hot-desking" also raises questions about whether employees are being spied on. ... Read full article

Interactive Facebook ads and Twitter chats can complement — and sometimes outdo — traditional marketing and networking in the recruitment of commercial clients, financial institutions say. ... Read full article

Pivotus, the software business run by the bank’s former CEO, collaborates with financial institutions from Australia to the Netherlands. ... Read full article

Artificial intelligence is helping detect breaches the human eye can’t. But it also gives hackers an edge. ... Read full article

In an in-depth Q&A, early bitcoin adopter Erik Voorhees, founder of the crypto exchange ShapeShift, discusses a new acquisition, an experimental investment product and the future of his industry. ... Read full article

The Consumer Financial Data Rights group, representing aggregators and fintechs, says banks still aren’t forking over enough customer data. The group is meeting with bank regulators and trying to get consumers to petition regulators on its behalf. ... Read full article

When Apple or Google releases a new version of its operating system, banks are forced to respond by updating their mobile apps—running just to stay in place. Next month's release from Apple is especially challenging. ... Read full article

The machine is among the more commonly pitched solutions for high-risk merchants that can't normally handle payment cards because banks won’t partner with them. But for dispensaries, they can be a hassle. ... Read full article

Oracle Corp. is offering a payments application programming interface based on the ISO 20022 standard that will allow banks to more easily collaborate with fintechs and other third parties. ... Read full article

The business world has been seeking the benefits of distributed ledgers but worries about security, control, privacy, performance and other issues. Microsoft says its new Coco framework will solve all these and more. ... Read full article

Heather Tuason is now chief product officer of StreetShares, an online lending and investing platform. ... Read full article

West Milton State Bank uses biometrics for employees to log into workstations, saying it is quicker and more secure than passwords. ... Read full article