Bank technology

The Target data breach last year, which exposed the data of up to 110 million cardholders, reigns as the largest security lapse of the past 12 months. But this year has seen at least five other noteworthy cases of card data theft, all targeting retailers.

The bank's adoption of scheduling technology underscores the fact that, while branch traffic is declining, most sales of loan, deposit or investment products are still made at the branch. It's also further evidence that banks are using technology to engage with customers who are visiting branches less and less.

Swift announced that six more banks — Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Erste Group Bank, HSBC, ING and Raiffeisen Bank International — have signed up to jointly develop the organization's Know Your Customer Registry.

Ion Bank is expanding the use of video tellers in its branches a little more than a year after initially deploying this technology.

Goodwill industries is investigating a possible theft of customer card data.

Cardtronics Inc. (CATM) is set to buy Welch ATM for $160 million, expanding the ATM provider with an additional 26,000 kiosks.

Altisource Portfolio Solutions' acquisition of Mortgage Builder Software will close next month, the companies announced Monday, following weeks of rumors but no official confirmation of the deal.

The ".bank" Internet domain will soon be operated by the Financial Services Roundtable and a coalition of financial services industry organizations.

Apple's partnership with IBM is big and dramatic, but it’s unclear if it will offer anything bankers don't already have access to.

Monitise, an e-commerce firm in London, said on Monday that it has expanded its mobile banking partnership with IBM. The announcement comes less than a week after IBM signed a partnership with Apple to create business apps for iOS devices.

Scivantage is launching new software called sqope that helps investors track the performance of their investments.

In The Members Group's innovation lab, engineers have been tinkering with an app that lets Glass users tap to make a payment.

Check, a bill pay app owned by Intuit, has launched a feature some financial institutions have been positioning as a competitive differentiator: the ability to pay paper bills using the smartphone camera.

People's United (PBCT) in Bridgeport, Conn., has started a payments firm in partnership with Vantiv in a move that aided the company's quarterly results.

The 100 new enterprise apps the two companies are creating will target specific "pain points" for the industries.

A simple loan payment calculator is proving surprisingly fruitful for Alliant Credit Union.

Sageworks, a credit-risk management, analysis and valuation solutions provider in Raleigh, N.C., has launched a cloud-based bank and credit union data platform for banks, investors and banking industry vendors.

New York's financial regulation chief is proposing a "BitLicense" regulatory regime that he says will protect consumers and root out wrongdoing without stifling innovation by virtual-currency businesses in the state.

The plan was for Kang Gao to do his exit interview with Two Sigma Investments LLC, a $21 billion quantitative hedge fund in New York, and jump to Citadel LLC, a rival firm in Chicago.

Ally Bank, the direct bank subsidiary of Ally Financial in Midvale, Utah, has launched an internally developed mobile banking app designed for larger screen iPad devices.