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An antitrust complaint against Visa and MasterCard will continue, prolonging the eight-year battle, after both proponents and defendants were heard during the fairness hearing Sept. 12.

The fingerprint scanner in Apple's new iPhone 5S should help banks with consumer acceptance as they experiment with newer forms of authentication technology.

Want consumers to engage with your financial firm? Don’t try to turn their finances into a flashy smartphone game; find new ways to do their banking for them.

The latest version of a portfolio management system from Moody's Analytics includes features tailored to banks preparing for capital regulations under Basel III.

Finovate gets bankers and startups tweeting their hearts - and snarks-out. Below are the top 10 tweets from the conference that showcases the latest in financial services technology.

Recent reports that the National Security Agency has been undermining encryption on the Internet have led to speculation about the security of online banking data.

Recent reports that the National Security Agency has been undermining encryption on the Internet raise questions about the security of online banking data. The spy agency has been installing "back doors" in commercial software and introducing weaknesses to industry encryption standards, according to documents leaked to the media by Edward Snowden. The good news (such as it is) is that cybercriminals may not take advantage of these vulnerabilities, since they usually focus more on tricking humans through tactics like phishing than on the time-consuming work of cracking codes.

Verint's enhanced video surveillance system provides license plate and facial recognition, as well as access from Apple devices.

Day-one demos from Finovate gave a lot of airtime to personal financial management app refinements, such as collaboration and data visualization. Here's a look at five.

Zions Bancorp. (ZION) in Salt Lake City plans to auction up to $250 million of debt through its online broker-dealer subsidiary.

The Silicon Valley startup works through a set of telephone protocols to triangulate cell phones — no apps needed.

Evertec (EVTC), a payments business Popular started 25 years ago, filed a secondary offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to sell 20 million shares, including 9 million shares currently held by the $37 billion-asset Popular.

At the beginning of the month, U.S. Bancorp purchased the other half of its supply chain joint venture, Syncada, from its partner Visa.

Lighter Capital is mining Big Data to analyze credit risk from a novel source: the sales pipeline. The startup is pulling information about prospective business borrowers from Salesforce's Customer Relationship Management system into its online lending platform.

The hacktivist collective known as "Anonymous" has threatened a September 11 attack on bank servers. Observers expect the attack could have the same impact as one the group threatened on May 7 — which is to say, none.

Backbase launched portal software for commercial banking on Tuesday.

Mitek Systems is offering financial institutions a mobile photo account opening feature, using a mobile device's camera to scan and capture any needed documentation. The software also lets the customer immediately fund the account using mobile check capture.

MoneyDesktop on Tuesday launched a long-term goal setting platform that aggregates a person's daily spending habits and suggests a financial road map.