Bank technology

A new application delivery controller has shaved ten seconds off ATM transaction time.

Banks will soon have one more way to spend their marketing dollars online.

Thoma Bravo LLC, a private equity investment firm, announced Tuesday its sale of Entrust, a digital identity and information company, to Datacard Group.

Urban Partnership Bank in Chicago is selling a branch, has launched an online banking platform and has made an unusual offer to customers.

Fiserv was supposed to post a note on the website of an N.C. bank that BNC recently bought that redirected the acquisition's customers to BNC's site. Unfortunately, the note appeared on the wrong website -- that of a nearby rival.

McWhinney, the head of Citigroup's enterprise payments division, is leaving the bank at the end of January to serve as an independent director for a Fortune 250 company, which she did not name. She said she hopes her move will encourage more women to serve on the boards of public companies.

The credit union servicer Co-Op Financial Services has introduced a program that makes it easier for members to make charitable contributions.

An app that lets people compare crowdfounding projects across the world has debuted in iTunes.

The community bank says it's winning over government contractors and law and accounting firms with technology that's a step ahead of peers.

A recent survey found that a significant number of customer problems take multiple interactions to resolve or are left unaddressed. Improvement in this area is critical as banks try to keep customers.

Some banks have quietly begun testing computers that harness quantum physics to run 100,000 times faster than traditional computers.

Quantum computing is being made ready for use in banking. A quick look at what goes on inside a high-speed quantum computing machine.

Banks lost $1.7 billion to deposit-account fraud, according to an American Bankers Association survey.

A California startup is seeking community banks to pilot its transaction analytics service. The startup's grander vision: to also track customers' physical activities and reward them with better interest rates and small business deals as they move more.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has upgraded its CommBank mobile banking app for Android and Windows 8 devices such that its customers can use it for mobile banking and mobile purchases.

The alliance, which is creating an open standard for authentication, is expanding its blue-chip membership.

The issues Google solves with KitKat were among its biggest hurdles, but it's still too soon to declare a winner in the mobile wallet race.

The bold-faced names of government, technology and finance have jumped into peer-to-peer lending, one of the fastest-growing - and buzziest - new segments of financial services, led by players like Lending Club and Prosper. Here are some of the celebrities who have decided to embrace peer-to-peer lending.

Birthdays. Pet names. No matter how often banks preach the importance of online security, some consumers still insist on using passwords that are as easy to hack as they are to remember. With mobile apps, fraud risk is often accompanied by frustration among users who are forever fat-fingering data on tiny alpha-numeric keyboards. Following are five ways that banks are aiming to make the mobile log-in experience safer and more user-friendly.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council on Wednesday issued final guidance aimed at helping, banks, credit unions and other financial institutions manage risks related to social media.