Bank technology

This startup aims to ease burden of paying for fertility treatments

06/22/17

Future Family plans to differentiate itself by tying financing with a suite of products women need as they pursue fertility treatment.

[more]

Alert: There are too many cybersecurity alerts

06/22/17

Banks are getting hundreds of thousands of security alerts a day — way too many for humans to handle.

[more]

Ethereum network backlog points to growing pains

06/21/17

Initial coin offerings seen causing bottleneck in the network; exchanges halt ethereum transactions.

[more]

IMF: Digital currency could remake 'cumbersome' cross-border payments

06/21/17

Just as we call letters "snail mail," in the future people may consider bank transfers snail money.

[more]

'Bubbles and busts are sometimes good'

06/21/17

Vinny Lingham, founder and CEO of Civic, discusses the froth in cryptocurrency markets, the mania for "initial coin offerings," the right way to do token sales, the future of digital identity and the banking system's security failings.

[more]

How liability stands in way of banks’ digital ID ambitions

06/21/17

Portable digital identities could improve customer experience, cut costs and generate revenue for banks. But who’s on the hook when something goes wrong?

[more]

Goldman vet joins board of open-source trading systems startup

06/21/17

The fintech startup OpenFin now has 40 Wall Street firms building applications for its operating system, which promise security and interoperability.

[more]

Hardware issue causes digital banking outage at PNC

06/20/17

Customers of the Pittsburgh company were unable to access their accounts via online and mobile channels for several hours on Tuesday.

[more]

How AI could revolutionize custody banks

06/20/17

The image of traditional custody banks is as stodgy as it gets, but some are using machine learning to help their clients and their own research teams glean insights from massive amounts of data.

[more]

Credit scores will change in July — what lenders can expect

06/20/17

Next month, credit bureaus will have to drop information about tax liens and civil judgments from credit scores unless they can independently verify the data. Eva Wolkowitz of the Center for Financial Services Innovation and Sarah Davies of VantageScore discuss.

[more]