Digital banking, compliance, data storage mandates, and new architectures are all on the radar for the many small banks undertaking long-overdue core overhauls. The projects are expensive, but necessary.

Amid the debate over whether or not banks should mine social media data for their credit-risk analyses, some financial services providers have quietly begun doing so.

Banks like Citigroup and Capital One are expanding their use of innovation labs that bring in clients and outside experts to match R&D to customer demands.

When two bank technology Goliaths go to battle over patents, smaller vendors might get hurt.

The New Zealand bank expects to save $18,000 a year on its electric bills by automatically powering down computers when they're not being used.

Santander's Sovereign Bank is testing if small businesses can be won over with gadgets.

Faced with an expensive hardware upgrade, Century Bank opted to farm out core processing to its technology partner.

Surprisingly for a community bank, City Bank, a $1.9 billion institution in Lubbock, Tex., offers a few wrinkles in its recently updated mobile banking app that we haven't seen elsewhere.

Five Questions with John MacIlwaine, Head of IT, Green Dot.

Much of banks' reputation restoration work is taking place on digital channels.

Familiar merger concepts are blowing up at a time when branch networks are being relegated to more of a supportive role.

Much like a diner waitress who can't keep up with her tables, the need to keep up with new technologies that might make work proceed more smoothly or quickly is a job requirement that many business leaders find similarly overwhelming.