Bank technology

2017 Digital Bankers of the Year

06/08/17

The following is a recap of the 2017 slate of honorees picked by the tech journalists at American Banker, led by Digital Banker of the Year Michelle Moore of Bank of America and including four finalists.

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Playing corporate matchmaker at HSBC

06/08/17

The bank's new Connections Hub portal allows its commercial clients to find potential buyers and sellers of their products in other markets.

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Should banks be in the business of ‘surveillance capitalism’?

06/08/17

The selling of anonymized customer data may be legal, but it raises ethical questions about the use and protection of that information.

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Two new services aim to help consumers save

06/08/17

Vault and Retiremap are launching products this week that are designed to help people stash cash where they can.

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Staking out banks' place in the open financial web

06/07/17

By making it easier and safer to share data with third parties, Wells Fargo's Brett Pitts says he is strengthening the bank's relationships with customers.

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Bank execs now bullish on public blockchains, survey finds

06/07/17

The vast majority of financial services executives surveyed by Cognizant predict open systems like bitcoin will gain greater prominence over the next five years — slightly more than said the same for private blockchains.

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Why Citi puts a premium on mobile users' satisfaction

06/06/17

Alice Milligan has pushed Citi to introduce dozens of mobile enhancements intended to simplify customers' interactions with the bank.

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How to catch the 'rogues' threatening your institution

06/06/17

Some of the biggest risks facing any large bank come from within, such as human error or mischievous traders. Risk management consultant and author Andrew Waxman discusses how cognitive psychology and augmented intelligence offer help.

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How bankers, techies and interns made mortgages mobile

06/06/17

At CIBC, Aayaz Pira is quickly turning ideas into apps, including its new mortgage one, with the help of its recently formed innovation hub.

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Apple makes iMessage the heart of its P-to-P strategy

06/05/17

Apple formally announced the debut of its rumored Venmo-like P-to-P service, and as with anything Apple-related, it's deeply embedded into the overall Apple ecosystem.

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