Disruptors

Banco Santander hires Intuit exec to lead digital innovation

06/29/17

Lindsey Argalas will push innovation throughout the Spanish bank and encouraging collaboration across businesses and markets.

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Overheard at Digital Banking 2017

06/26/17

The following are some of the noteworthy things we heard at American Banker’s Digital Banking 2017 conference held earlier this month in Austin, Texas.

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Standout startups from N.Y. fintech boot camp class of '17

06/23/17

Compliance, security and data analytics were the themes at this year’s New York FinTech Innovation Lab demo day.

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How marketplace lenders’ efforts to be more banklike could backfire

06/23/17

Operational changes may be enticing to investors, but they threaten the very foundation of marketplace lending, potentially shutting out those the burgeoning sector was meant to serve.

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How Yolande Piazza at Citi FinTech is ‘breaking glass’

06/22/17

The CEO of Citi’s innovation group says she and her staff of industry outsiders are driving change within the 215-year-old bank.

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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.

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USAA’s innovation chief talks Amazon, Chase and Cadillac

06/16/17

Zack Gipson, USAA’s chief innovation officer, also discusses the challenges of bringing a human touch to digital channels in a brief but candid Q&A.

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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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How this Ohio mutual is getting an edge in tech

06/02/17

First Federal Lakewood has teamed up with the largest banks in Ohio on a fintech accelerator and invested in Eastern Bank’s tech spinoff, with the goal of staying relevant.

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This is how financial services chatbots are going to evolve

05/26/17

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

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