IBM tops the list of enterprise vendors, followed by HP and Dell.

A look at how IDC Financial Insights compiles the list.

A massive technology overhaul by American Savings Bank in Honolulu is evidence that the buying spree many core systems vendors went on in recent years to bulk up their product suites is paying off.

SilverTail Systems promises to find fraud in business logic anomalies, alerting banks when their sites are being attacked, or merely probed for weakness. ING Direct CIO Rudy Wolfe and SilverTail CEO Tim Eades talk about the value of layers, and how the industry is working together to fight fraud.

As trouble in the nation's foreclosure process leaked out-from robo-signing to lost documents to backdated notarizations-the hunt was on for a culprit.

There was plenty of excitement around mobile banking applications at BAI's Retail Delivery conference in Las Vegas at the end of October.

The bandwidth problems began for First National Bank of Pennsylvania soon after the addition of more than 20 new branches. Customer calls, powered in the call center by voice-over-IP, were snarled, disrupted, choppy or dropped completely. Soon the bank made unraveling the network birds' nests a priority.

The payments industry is embracing point-to-point encryption and tokenization rapidly, in fact much faster than the PCI Security Standards Council can come up with rules that grant its stamp of approval on the advanced technology.

It's long been said, typically by the derided, that everyone's a critic. Now, with social media networks like Twitter, Yelp and Facebook, everyone's a published critic.

Cloud computing's often portrayedas a bastion of efficiency, replacing bloated legacy data centers with a flexible new architecture that saves time, equipment, maintenance and energy. But that real picture is far more complex, and deployments can actually have adverse energy effects if not managed properly.

MasterCard's largest facility, its IT center in O'Fallon, Missouri, has received Gold certification in the LEED for Existing Buildings rating system.

The debate about the future of the branch is being resolved one bank at a time.

Recently the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) issued recommendations on evaluating the security of "user-developed applications," or UDAs. So what impact does all this have specifically on the banking industry, especially as they face new demands from regulators? A lot.