Citizens Access Targeting ‘Optimizers’ to Grow Deposits Beyond the Bank’s Footprint
If you build it, the optimizers will come. Citizens Access, the digital-only arm of Rhode Island-based Citizens Financial Group, has...
Risk & Security
Barclays to Merge BPay, Pingit Products as Banks Fend Off Apple
Barclays Plc is preparing to merge its wearable mobile payments product BPay with its more popular Pingit app, after it...
Most Powerful Banker in Nordics Says Cutting Humans Reduces Risk
The man running the biggest Nordic bank says that reducing the number of humans working in finance will actually help...
Inherently High-Risk, Banks Seek To Tackle Cybersecurity Risks and Costs at Once
Increasing digitization and interconnectivity is driving a rising tide of inherent cyber risk that is particularly high for banks, with...
ACI Worldwide Acquires Speedpay to Better Its Subscription-Based Payments Service
Mobile bill presentment is at the heart of ACI Worldwide's $750 million all-cash acquisition of bill pay service Speedpay from...
Citi Venture Investing Head: ‘Financial Services is Becoming More Like Tech’
Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic...
Plaid Team Multiplies as Sales Model Comes into Focus
Fintech Plaid is in massive-growth mode. By yearend, the company has plans to get to 600 employees from 300, Charley...
Fundamentals of Changing a Bank’s Core System
The announcement that BB&T will make a $28.2 billion all-stock acquisition of SunTrust Bank -- which, when it closes, will be the largest...
Accenture, nCino Make Global Push to Get More FIs in the Cloud
Consulting giant Accenture and cloud banking firm nCino are expanding the scope of their partnership beyond North America to get...
Gemalto to Offer Biometric Payment Cards to Banks, Where Adoption has Lagged
Security firm Gemalto will offer biometric EMV payment cards to its bank customers using biometric company Fingerprint Cards’ T-Shape sensor...
