Bank technology

Utah-based Ally Bank has expanded its use of Fiserv's Popmoney person-to-person payments service. It now lets consumers send and receive funds from within the bank's mobile banking app.

Colonial Savings, a mortgage-servicing firm, installed new mortgage software and consequently tripled loan volume, cut costs and improved compliance without reducing headcount.

French market regulator Autorité? des Marché?;s Financiers (AMF) has adopted a new market surveillance tool by business analytics software provider SAS.

ING Direct clients in Canada can now access online government services using their existing ING login names and passwords thanks to the company's partnership with authentication service provider SecureKey.

A botched ATM heist blew up — literally — on several Australian thieves when they soaked an automated teller machine in gasoline and tried to light it on fire, according to fintech blog Finextra.

Planwise is placing its financial modeling tools in places where people are making big financial decisions.

The technology company Omyen Corp. has released software that lets retirement advisors produce custom reports for their clients.

Wearable identity startup Bionym, one of BTN’s top 10 fintech companies to watch, released Monday its software development kit documentation and an online forum to get developers coding apps for its forthcoming wristband, which is called Nymi.

The rise of mobile banking is starting to impact branch staffing levels. At the same time, new jobs are being created in branches and on digital banking teams.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) this week.

Ally Bank announced Friday that it's offering its customers security software.

Bank of America (BAC) received top honors for mobile banking in an annual survey by Javelin Strategy & Research, edging out last year's winner JPMorgan Chase (JPM).

Consumers have opted in to receiving e-statements. Now banks need to get them to agree to stop receiving paper statements to actually offset operational costs.

Intel is loading near field communication technology into laptops and desktops that will eventually be able to receive payments from phones, according to Computerworld.

First Internet Bancorp (INBK) in Indianapolis has increased the size of its previously announced public offering.

NCR Corp. will install more than 2,000 NCR ATMs for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in the U.K.

After his cellphone number wound up online, PNC's chief executive says that he answers — and welcomes — some of the calls he gets from dissatisfied customers.

Bank of America's tech team is bringing compliance employees closer to the app-creation process in order to hedge against bumps down the road.

Financial institution call centers are one of the biggest targets for phone fraudsters, according to a report released today by Pindrop Security.

"I would use this," Mom said, "if there was a place nearby that accepted it." Mobile adoption confronts the classic chicken-or-egg conundrum.