bank-technology

Mobile Authentication Guide Is a Weak Half-Measure

06/28/16

Federal regulations Â-- including the FFIEC's recent mobile security guidelines Â-- have not kept pace with mobile innovation and the security risks users face from smartphone banking platforms.

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Three Steps to Stronger Fintech-Government Ties

06/24/16

The recent White House fintech summit was helpful in exposing companies to regulators, and vice versa, but we need to strengthen the lines of communications even more.

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Banks Should Be Optimistic About Their Fintech Future

06/22/16

Contrary to doom-and-gloom attitudes of some about banks' ability to compete for millennials' business, the industry will build on its history of innovation to meet the technology needs of future customers.

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Don't Let Facebook Likes Sway Credit Decisions

06/17/16

Even though innovative underwriting criteria can help more people get credit, the risks and potential harms of mining social media data to make loan decisions might just be too great.

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CFPB Plan Will Halt Traditional Lenders' Small-Dollar Loan Progress

06/16/16

The prospect of banks and credit unions meeting small-dollar loan demand is at risk under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's restrictive proposal.

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Digital Bank Marketing: It's All About the Content

06/16/16

As banks try to acquire new customers via digital channels, they should add content marketing strategies into their lineups.

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Screen Scraping vs. APIs Is a Sideshow. Here's the Real Battle

06/15/16

Instead of fighting to own customer data, banks need to embrace a new model: becoming personal data banks that help customers do more than manage money.

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Banks Stay Out of the Privacy Debate at Their Own Peril

06/15/16

If banks don't weigh in on an appropriate privacy standard, they risk letting outside events spark onerous new regulations.

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Three Ways to Thwart Hackers' Attempts at Persuasion

06/14/16

Cybercriminals understand psychology just as much as they do technology. Here are steps your bank employees must take to mitigate the risk of phishing and other attacks.

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Big Banks Will Look More Like Google by 2025

06/13/16

Nonbanks now set the digital banking experience bar, but in less than a decade large banks will have swallowed them up and will have become digital financial superstores.

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