John Adams

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.

Of all the community banks that are executing core upgrades, few will undergo quite as vast a transformation as East Carolina Bank, where hardware assets that in some cases date to the Reagan Era are going into the cocoon and coming out as cutting-edge automation.

At T Bank, the big new IT project is more than a new deployment — it's a cross-enterprise method of using virtualization and outsourcing to enable a bunch of smaller IT projects.

Although consumers state a preference for receiving bank information through mobile text alerts, banks are still using older methods such as mass mail for much of their outbound communications with customers.

Interoperability among mobile-payments stakeholders is still a work in progress, says the Mobey Forum, which includes B of A, Nokia and others. True cooperation will be easier said than done.

Looking to lengthen branch hours and increase transaction speed while containing staff costs, the Pittsburgh area bank is deploying new ATMs from NCR and uGenius that allow customers to speak to a live teller on screen.

The bank says lots of merchants won't take cards for very small purchases. So it's using chip and PIN, and aggregated stored value POS technology, to increase use of contactless mobile and card payments.

New banking tablet apps at Citigroup and Intuit are taking advantage of the wider screen and more layered relationships people have with the actual devices, and finding out along the way that a venue for games and novels is a great location for visually pleasing, research heavy financial services.

The credit union cooperative will greatly expand its ability to offer online and mobile bill payment technology to its thousands of members.

In a pair of new ventures, Citigroup and Mint.com are tailoring personal financial management content to demographic segments — a relatively unused but emerging use of PFM.

As the financial services company's largely remote customer base begins to embrace smartphones as their primary, if not only, point of contact, the company is planning to alter its marketing and functional strategy for mobile in the year ahead.