Bank Data news and trends

Bank of America Readies Launch Of Multi-Account Cash Forecasting
B2B Payments // November 04, 2019

Bank of America is developing a new cash-flow forecasting solution for its corporate customers in conjunction with a FinTech partner. On Monday (Nov. 4), Bank of America said it is gearing up to bring its CashPro Forecasting IQ solution to market after a successful proof...

Financial Data Analytics Firm MX Lands $100M Investment
B2B Payments // June 26, 2019

MX, a Utah-based technology startup offering a data cleansing and analytics platform for the finance sector, has just announced a $100 million investment. Crunchbase reported Tuesday that Battery Ventures led the investment round in MX, while Point72 Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and other...

How ACH Business Payments Pave The Way For US Open Banking
B2B Payments // June 24, 2019

In B2B payments, corporates’ continued use of paper checks confounds FinTech firms working to give businesses more affordable, faster and more efficient payment options. Yet, for many business payers, the reason for using checks can be quite straightforward: It’s simply the way payments have always...

Credit Unions Find Friendly Ground With FinTech Firms
Credit Unions // June 21, 2019

Consumers’ lives are becoming more digitally focused, which means it’s natural and expected that credit unions (CUs) are feeling the pressure to raise the level of their services across channels. This fact is borne by data in the latest edition of the Credit Union Tracker,...

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Credit Unions Find Friendly Ground With FinTech Firms

June 21, 2019
Consumers’ lives are becoming more digitally focused, which means it’s natural and expected that credit unions (CUs) are feeling the pressure to raise the level of their services across channels. This fact is borne by data in the latest edition of the Credit Union Tracker, a PYMNTS collaboration with PSCU, which found that 59.9 percent […]

The High Price Of API Avoidance

May 03, 2019
Keeping global commerce moving requires rapid-fire, cross-border B2B payments. As financial institutions (FIs) and other corporates seek to keep pace, many are turning to application program interfaces (APIs) to help....

In B2B, P2P, Banking And Beyond: APIs Are Coming

April 16, 2019
Being open about Open Banking means adopting technological change, even though there’s no requirement to do so. As Red Hat’s Justin Goldsmith, senior consulting architect, explains in the latest “State...

Computers Die, Databases Can’t — So Banks, What’s The Plan?

March 19, 2019
One cannot run a mainframe in the cloud. No one will ever beat the speed of light. Oh, yeah — and no one wants to lose their data to sloppiness, inefficiency...

Quick Reads
HSBC To Launch AML System With Google Cloud

November 30, 2018
HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, wants to launch its new cloud-based anti-money laundering risk management system by next year, according to Reuters. In cooperation with Google Cloud, the bank has been utilizing data analytics to develop the program, which would use machine learning to inspect the data from the banking behavior of more […]

Tesco Bank Fined £16.4M For 2016 Cyberattack

October 01, 2018
Tesco Bank agreed on Monday (Oct. 1) to pay £16.4m in a settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) due to a cyberattack at the lender in 2016. According to a...

DOJ Probes Wells’ Wholesale Banking Ops

September 06, 2018
Add another investigation to the roster of headlines swirling around Wells Fargo. As The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (Sept. 6), the Justice Department has opened an investigation into...

Fiserv Patches Security Loophole In Messaging Feature

August 30, 2018
Fiserv recently had to fix a weakness in its web platform that provided non-actionable event messages for a small number of customers. As a major provider of technology services to...