Sean Sposito

Greenwich Associates announced Monday it has agreed to acquire Javelin Strategy & Research for its work in mobile and multichannel banking, payments, security and fraud, among other expertise.

In an effort to make its style of alternative mobile and online payments more accessible, Dwolla launched several new features.

Bank of America introduced its own mobile payment dongle for merchants in early November, shifting the war to enable handsets to accept payments into high gear. Who's next?

Which technology companies will break new ground in financial services in the coming year? Purveyors of analytics, responsive design, and services for the underbanked were among those from which our editorial team expects big things in 2013.

Alternative payments company Dwolla launched three new services that further open up its network to new consumer users, merchants and third party developers.

The financial malware can detect when its being evaluated as a threat, the computer security company says.

The branchless bank now lets users deposit checks by smartphone.

SmartyPig is working with The Bancorp in an effort to resell its consumer savings goal-setting technology to the prepaid card companies and proxy banks that use The Bancorp as a means of storing cash.

The Bancorp will begin reselling SmartyPig's services within the next several months, the two companies said.

The card network is letting employees use their fingerprints to pay for food in the company cafeteria.

The terminal maker's method will allow the authority to track busses in the Bronx and relay that information to riders on their smartphones.

A "major" U.S. bank is being targeted by a group of international criminals involved in a so-called Operation High Roller scam. The con targets treasury customers as well as the wealthy in a scheme to move tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars overseas through wire transfers.

BBVA Compass announced Tuesday that it's expanding its mobile banking applications to include software for the Windows smartphone platform (version 7.5 or higher) and Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.

Device lets branch staff create chip and PIN and magnetic stripe cards for customers instantly.

The bank is combining a campaign to get institutional clients use paperless statements with donations to the Plant-for-the-Planet Billion Tree Campaign.

The Silicon Valley mobile payments company made the "humblebrag" over Twitter.

With Project Catalyst, the consumer protection agency says it wants to better understand financial products that could make people's lives better.

In an effort to foster innovation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is launching a data driven initiative that will intially involve several financial-services startups.

Bank of America is launching Mobile Pay on Demand through Bank of America Merchant Services, its Atlanta-based joint venture with First Data. We look at how this stacks up against similar mobile payment offerings out there.

Bank of America is launching a Square-like card-swiping device for smartphones called Mobile Pay on Demand. The service will be marketed through B of A’s Atlanta-based joint venture with First Data, Bank of America Merchant Services.