How likely are fraud victims to leave their bank?
Professor Rahul Telang at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College analyzed the behavior of 500,000 bank customers over five years to observe their reactions to adverse events such as fraud on their...
27 Feb 201714min
Breaking Banks: Fintech and the refugee crisis
Brett King, Marc Hochstein of American Banker, and Peter Renton, Founder of LendIt Academy, talk about the upcoming Digital Identity Crisis Webinar, The LendIt Conference at the Javits Center in NYC, ...
20 Feb 201756min
Should banks spell out how they invest customer deposits?
Trust and transparency can be strengthened and like-minded borrowers and banks can be brought together if transactions are "tagged" and investments are explained, argues Bruce Cahan, adjunct professor...
14 Feb 201712min
Breaking Banks: Mobile Money in Kenya
MPESA, the Swahili word for money, is Kenya's mobile money system developed by Safaricom. It has literally transformed the ability for people to work, save, pay for everything from groceries, bills,...
10 Feb 201752min
Breaking Banks: Fintech in Asia
Hong Kong and Singapore have long been economic crossroads. China and India are economies with vast populations and huge potential. And Shenzhen is bursting with innovative creativity. All of these co...
3 Feb 201757min
What an MIT professor learned by monitoring traders' emotions
Andrew Lo straps sensors to traders and watches how their pulses and body temperatures change when markets dive or trades go bad. The technology could be used elsewhere in a bank to address problems b...
30 Jan 201711min
Breaking Banks: Digital Money Forum at CES
Insights from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: How can AI help consumers spend and save wisely? If friction should be added back into the system, can we put it where it is useful, not frust...
27 Jan 201756min
Breaking Banks: Why banks aren't quite ready for Amazon Alexa.
Guest host Sam Maule speaks with American Banker reporter Lalita Clozel, Sam Hodges, managing director of Funding Circle, and Normand Lepine, senior practice lead at NTT DATA about U.S. regulators' ap...
23 Jan 201755min
