Jacob Passy

A stolen company laptop has left customers of Pioneer Savings Bank vulnerable, according to a consumer alert from the New York State Department of Financial Services.

Merchants' Choice Payment Solutions and Powa Technologies have teamed up to launch an integrated tablet-based point of sale system in a bid to meet demand for tablet-based payments.

ICBA Bancard has allocated nearly $600,000 to support community banks as they navigate the transition to EMV chip-and-PIN cards this year, the wholly owned payment services subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America announced this week.

Triumph Bancorp in Dallas has purchased several entities that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. retained after the failure of Doral Financial in Puerto Rico.

Focus Federal Credit Union announced it has earned its Community Development Financial Institution certification.

MasterCard has entered into an agreement with African mobile banking and payment services company eTranzact International to provide remittance services to Nigerian consumers.

A hedge fund is pressuring Webster Financial in Waterbury, Conn., to consider spinning off its health savings account division.

BancorpSouth in Tupelo, Miss., is planning to add a former Bank of America executive to its board.

Bankwell Financial Group in New Canaan, Conn., didn't have to look far to find a permanent leader.

Jack Henry & Associates and its ProfitStars division have released an online payments and donations platform designed for financial institutions and their business customers, the company announced Feb. 26.

NCUA will join the U.S. Small Business Administration to present a webinar focused on small business lending.

Machine-learning provider Feedzai has implemented upgrades to the fraud detection service API it released in November, the company announced Feb. 25.

Barclays is updating its Pingit person-to-person payment app to enable it to use Twitter usernames to identify recipients.

Members 1st Credit Union, based in Redding, Calif., said Teri Vanderpol has been selected to succeed CEO Mark Moore when he retires next year.

BofI Holding in San Diego is planning a new $50 million offering after raising the same amount earlier this year.

The business analytics software firm SAS has formed a new division focused on risk research and quantitative solutions for financial services firms. It’s headed by former bank executive Troy Haines, according to an announcement Monday.

Santander Bank will change its customer screening policies to allow more lower-income applicants to open checking and savings accounts.

Credible Labs in San Francisco has completed a round of seed financing that it says will fuel further growth of its student loan refinancing business.

MasterCard has launched a service that's designed to bolster wallet share of corporate clients with interests in Japan.

Payment technology company Pay.On has released an open platform for its payment infrastructure that will become available to the company’s clients.