Purge the Word ‘Frictionless’ from Banking
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It's time to relegate the phrase 'frictionless' to the FinTech trashbin. It will join words such as...
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Mega Social Media Data for Financial Services Has Arrived
It wasn't too long ago that the suggestion that social media data could feed financial services underwriting and products was, well,...
API Initiatives at Banks Held Back by Bureaucracy, Survey Shows
APIs -- application programming interfaces -- allow banks to create ecosystems of innovative products and technologies. Sounds good -- but...
Western Union Will Give Ripple a Chance
News broke yesterday at the Milken Institute's Global Conference 2015 that Western Union is planning an "experiment" with Ripple Labs,...
The Core Is All Right [Video]
They're everywhere, outdated bank cores -- and that may be ok. We all know about the problems with outdated cores...
Average Pay for Fintech Software Engineers Tops $100k
The average salary for a fintech software engineer is now more than $100,000, according to a Bank Innovation analysis. The...
BBVA Compass and Dwolla Launch Realtime Payment Service [Video]
Money movement service Dwolla and BBVA Compass Bancshares, the Birmingham, Ala.-based bank, have struck a deal to provide a realtime...
Citi Goes All In on Bitcoin
When Citi Ventures launched its accelerator with Plug and Play, the San Francisco build-an-accelerator outfit, last December, the Citigroup investment...
Just 9 FinTech Startups Present at Y Combinator’s Demo Day
A still from Final's video. Final looks to replace static-number credit cards with dynamic numbers More than 100 companies demoed at Y...
10 Coolest Brands in Banking 2015
How do you define “cool”? The Urban Dictionary (which is way cooler than other dictionaries) says “cool” is: An adjective...
