Security, predictive analytics, cloud and mobile payment providers are among our list of the most intriguing vendors for the banking industry in 2012.

Beset by security and regulatory burdens, financial institutions want to make these two heads one by mapping fast-changing risk and compliance mandates to their information technology networks so that updates securing the integrity of systems and workstations can happen more rapidly and more reliably. However, the innovation that accomplishes this is just starting to come out of the lab.

Large banks that have invested heavily in branding for their current Web addresses are not eager to switch to a .bank URL, but small banks may find there's some appeal.

The concept of the data center fabric is finally coming to fruition as vendors make their products closer to compatible.

Mailing mortgage documents to borrowers and getting them back, often partly signed, was costing National Bank of Kansas City fees and productivity.

First Midwest Bank finds automated calls to customers are effective at thwarting funds transfer fraud.

Bank of York didn't really need a new loan document management system, it just needed to use the one it had more efficiently.

The most popular iPad app in the Finance category of the Apple App Store in late November was Mint.com Personal Finance, which was released October 26. Mint has 6.5 million registered users, which explains the popularity and the 4,924 ratings the app had in late November. This is a "universal" app that runs on the iPad and the iPhone.

Five Questions with David Wallace, group manager of merchant compliance, Chase Paymentech.

A consumer survey finds many people would use banking and financial apps on a tablet computer, but few are interested in mobile payments.

Talk of banks not innovating quickly enough is misplaced - many banks depend on their core provider to make the first move.

The Top 10 Tech Companies to Watch is a list of the ten vendors, startups and established companies alike, that have technology that is innovative, that meets a current need for banks and their customers, and that comes with a likely-to-succeed business model.