It’s the first financial services firm to deploy passive voice biometrics as the primary way of authenticating wealth management customers who call in, according to vendor Nuance Communications.

Which financial institutions "get" LinkedIn? Jennifer Grazel, the social media network's global head of category development for financial services, offers up several examples.

Amid the hubbub surrounding distributed denial of service attacks on banks and other companies, some U.S. senators are taking steps to thwart another type of cyber threat: state-sponsored digital thieves bent on stealing business secrets from the U.S. Under the terms of the proposed law, the Deter Cyber Theft Act, the Director of National Intelligence would be required to compile an annual list of countries that engage in economic or industrial cyber espionage against U.S. firms.…

Payments processor Elavon has named Simon Haslam its chief executive officer. Haslam had been the head of international markets for the U.S. Bancorp unit.

So far, threats by Anonymous to shut down U.S. banks with distributed denial of service attacks this week has turned out to be idle.

The majority — 66% — of small business owners use mobile devices in their work, according to a survey conducted by Constant Contact.

The $330 million-asset bank has added First Data's Real Time CMA service, which provides real-time updating of debit-card balances, to the services it uses.

Developers should consider incorporating rewards and other tools such as receipt tracking in new mobile payment applications to promote broad adoption.

The hacker collective Anonymous has joined with groups throughout the Middle East and North Africa to vow a series of so-called denial of service attacks Tuesday against financial institutions.

Innovation has been critical to the Kansas City, Mo., bank ever since it introduced the first drive-up window nearly a century ago. Chief executive Mariner Kemper and Chief Financial Officer Michael Hagedorn discuss their strategy for mixing proprietary and off-the-shelf technologies in their bid to keep a step ahead of the competition.

When experiments in lending are properly organized and priced, they can be successful for borrowers and lenders of all income groups, even in tough times.

The CEO of UMB Financial believes the time has come to rethink branch technology, to speed service and cut costs.

Cash transaction network PayNearMe announced the addition of six-year Wells Fargo veteran Billy Robins as vice president of business development.

Bank is letting small business cardholders create a tagged and searchable archive of receipts to help with billing tasks.

State Employees' Credit Union will use Wincor Nixdorf's automated teller machine software.