Bank technology

Mastercard targets millennial clients with digital money management service

12/12/17

Assemble allows Mastercard partners or issuers to provide checking, budgeting and payment features, as well as additional money management.

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Banks, fintechs and a Brit royal to build green-lending blockchain

12/11/17

Can preferential loan terms encourage environmentally friendly practices among corporate borrowers? Barclays, BNP Paribas, and Standard Chartered are working with fintechs — and even Prince Charles — to develop a blockchain to answer that question.

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Bitcoin futures trading starts off on wild ride

12/11/17

The cryptocurrency proved so popular it triggered two temporary trading halts on CBOE's Global Markets exchange.

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Why JPMorgan, Amex, HSBC are backing ‘isolation’ web browsing

12/11/17

In a rare show of public support for a security technology, the banks are leading a $40 million funding round for Menlo Security, provider of browser technology that keeps malware at bay — and they’re using it, too.

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Pranks at CFPB, tax cuts' impact and bitcoin: Top stories of the week

12/08/17

For the second week in a row, the CFPB's leadership shakeout dominated readers' attention, while a regional banker discussed efforts to fight hacking and the impact of the tax cuts, and bitcoin's price soared.

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Cryptocurrencies aren’t the problem in recent hacks, user error is

12/08/17

Tether's $31 million hack gave bitcoin skeptics plenty to crow about. But experts say bad security is to blame, not digital assets.

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HSBC joins corporate partnership at MIT

12/07/17

HSBC Bank is joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Industrial Liaison Program as part of a broader effort to invest more in technology, data and analytics.

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How to tell if a fintech startup will succeed

12/07/17

Jon Zanoff, managing director of Barclays New York Accelerator, has been coaching fintech startups for decades. He offers tips on how to make it as a fintech startup and run an effective accelerator.

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Games, gift cards, virtual branches: B of A's new digital wrinkles

12/07/17

Bank of America is launching several upgrades to its mobile app meant to make the product more fun and essential to customers' daily lives. It is also expanding digital-only branches through which customers communicate with staff by video.

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When technology becomes a bank merger’s albatross

12/06/17

After two century-old community institutions merged in 2010, they never suspected it would take seven years before their operating systems got along.

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