Fintech

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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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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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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Fintech's ultimate value: Making sense of the data explosion

06/05/17

With such massive amounts of data bolstered by ubiquitous modes of distribution, the most meaningful fintech investment opportunities center around enabling a new truth equilibrium.

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Breaking Banks: Bitcoin's backstory; Fintech in Charlotte

06/02/17

American Banker reporter Brian Eha shares stories and thoughts from his new book, "How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance," and two fintech leaders explain why Charlotte is destined to be the next big fintech hub.

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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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KeyCorp to buy fintech firm that helped it score with customers

05/31/17

KeyCorp is acquiring HelloWallet, a personal financial management product it has offered its bank customers since 2015, from the investment research firm Morningstar.

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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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Scrap screen scraping? Europe's finding it's not that simple

05/24/17

Europe is debating whether to ban screen scraping, a practice that fintechs count on as a last resort. Innovation is at stake.

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