‘ATM Killer’ Spare Releases v. 3.0 of App
The mobile payments app Spare wants to kill the ATM. More specifically, Spare wants to give customers access to cash...
Risk & Security
Why Institutions Trump “The Crowd” When it Comes to Raising Growth Capital [Sponsored]
Institutional vs. Crowdfunding I am a big proponent of crowdfunding. Unfortunately, equity crowdfunding is still experiencing the growing pains of...
Barclays Customers Can Now Have Their IDs Verified at ‘Hello’
The "voice revolution" is about to make consumer banking a whole lot faster and easier. This week, Barclays announced that...
SMS No Longer Secure for 2-Factor Authorization
It might be time to say goodbye to those text messages containing PINs to help you log into your favorite...
10 Fintech Startups You Probably Haven’t Heard Of (Until Now)
When you're in financial services, it sometimes seems like fintech startups are everywhere. They're on Twitter, LinkedIn, they're at conferences, they're...
How Regions Bank Provides an Amazon-like Experience
Regions Bank tied with Amazon.com in a recent ranking of web experiences. How does a super-regional bank match the efforts of one the...
How Will Banks Secure the New Channels — Messaging, Video, Chatbots?
The first video banking call crossing the Atlantic took place this week. A new virtual assistant (TouchAssist) and a new...
Civic Aims To Kill SSNs As a Form of Authentication
Have you used your social security number lately? Has anyone else used your social security number? How would you know?...
Details on the FDIC Security Breach by Chinese Spies [VIDEO]
How Chinese spies hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2010 until 2013 -- and American government...
Kasisto Facebook Outage Shows Danger of Banks Being Tech Companies
It's become common for bankers to say, "Our bank is a technology company." But technology companies "move fast and break...
