Sean Sposito

ATM maker Cardtronics announced Thursday that its British subsidiary has purchased a developer of marketing and advertising software and services for ATM owners.

U.S. Bank announced Thursday that it's launching Mitek's Mobile Photo Bill Pay service to its retail customers.

The high-profile break-in of @burgerking has many bank employees discussing authentication and security mechanisms for the social media networks.

ACH Alert announced Thursday that Trustmark National Bank of Jackson, Miss. has chosen it for its automated clearing house network fraud prevention services.

The credit-card issuer is making a bid to become a player in the growing world of branchless consumer banking.

In the future, wearable computing — such as Google's recently hyped Glass — could be a boon for programmers looking to create financial services software for banks.

The acquisition by TSYS of prepaid card company NetSpend means the payment processor will manage a delicate balance between being a vendor to banks and being a consumer-facing company.

Square's sales pitch has largely been based on the ease of plucking its mobile card reader of a retail store's shelf and suddenly being able to accept swiped card payments. But for some merchants, it hasn't been so easy.

By offering a card swiping device combined with an iPad, cash drawer and printer, the payments startup has a more complete and appealing offering for small merchants.

Social media is great for marketing. For customer authentication, not so much.

The new automated teller machine design Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) announced Monday is meant to provide a more customized experience for customers, an executive at the bank says.

Wells Fargo & Co. announced Monday that it's revamped its automated teller machine user interface, creating new features and streamlining the device's design.

File-sharing website Mega has begun accepting bitcoins to pay for its storage subscriptions, its controversial founder Kim Dotcom announced over Twitter last week.

Payment servicer Verifone will be supplying 3,200 payment terminals to Galeries Lafayette.

BBVA Compass is leveraging its parent's three-year-old partnership with the NBA in offering basketball fans a branchless banking account.

Lending technology start-up On Deck announced Wednesday that it has raised $42 million in a Series D financing round led by Institutional Venture Partners.

Citigroup (NYSE: C) announced Wednesday that it has begun using a corporate-to-bank Swift message type for multinational corporate clients.

As banks struggle to move past passwords, a Silicon Valley startup is taking a stab at a fingerprint and facial recognition standard built with the support of some heavy hitters — PayPal and Lenovo among them.

American Express' move into social payments could be a boon for the transaction type, bringing to it what startups could not: marketing.

Nok Nok Labs, a startup run by the founder of data security vendor PGP, is developing technology that could let biometric authentication mechanisms communicate easily with servers.