John Adams

As credit unions look to add small businesses to their client mix, there's an acute need to get up to speed on technology quickly. For Community Choice, the answer is payments innovation.

Like MasterCard, Discover's new roadmap to EMV card payments in the U.S. relies on heavier security protocols, which Visa says aren't needed in a market dominated by online processing.

Crooks have figured out a way to illegally obtain mobile phone SIM cards, causing a headache for the contactless payments market.

By using regularly updated profiles and business rules, the bank tailors new marketing campaigns on a daily basis. It's now working on a system that will provide near-real-time marketing based on current transactions.

The Payment Systems Task Force will advocate for banks in the public debate about emerging mobile payments.

To stay relevant in the hypercompetitive personal financial management space, tech companies like Strands are trying to distance themselves from the PFM standard of a one-size-fits-all approach to online budgeting.

Adam Shapiro helped drive one of the world's largest virtualization projects at Citigroup. He's now helping Breakthrough Technology Group's aggressive pursuit of financial clients.

The provider of personal financial management software hopes to increase use and awareness among bank customers, which would make the tools more effective over time.

Staffers are getting Square readers to directly collect donations while in the field.

The banks are early movers into Kindle, taking advantage of the large screen to offer an easier interface and more visual information on bank relationships and transactions.

The bank riffed off its iPad app to create an app for the Amazon tablet alternative. Citi also rolled out mobile check deposit and person-to-person payments for smartphones today.

The smartphone manufacturer is positioned to embed near-field communication into future iPhones and develop its own mobile wallet that bypasses the telecoms and offers spend controls for family or business use.

The partnership will help the credit union technology cooperative repair, secure and upgrade thousands of ATMs.

Citigroup's new lending module is designed to help track financial flows between different parts of the same company, improving management of tax liabilities and compliance.

A European coalition of bank regulators says domains such as .bank are prime for phishing and other web crime. Proponents of the new domains, such as BITS, beg to differ.

Bill.com has developed technology that gives businesses a view into future payments and receivables.

For Robert Landstein, the key to First Trade Union Bank's growth initiative starts with a process as simple as snapping a picture.

The bank, which is increasingly reliant on remote access and the use of staffers' own tech devices, is deploying new data protections that allow it to avoid the expense of defending each endpoint.

Forward Financial Bank sees an opportunity to ply new electronic signatures to reduce the use of paper, pens, closing times — and erase a host of inaccuracies.

South Florida banking is not for the faint of heart. The local banking community has been pummeled and the regional business market is still smarting from the real estate crisis.