Bank technology

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.

Its purchase of an Alabama software company has given Geneva-based Temenos a leg up in the U.S. core banking market.

Popular Community Bank, the U.S. unit of Banco Popular, is finding it can make many of the cash management services it offers corporate clients available to much smaller shops on mobile devices.

Aiming to increase its member reach, Statewide Federal Credit Union announced Monday the launch of a tablet-based app that allows staff to offer people financial services outside of the branch.

Software created by developers at TechCrunch's Disrupt SF Hackathon shows Glass' potential for digital transactions beyond clothing.

California's legislature has voted to reform a money-transmission law that has come under fire for stymying payments innovation.

Banks can access software applications from 20 different financial technology firms with a new program from Yodlee Interactive that extends its FinApp app store.

The Rhode Island bank earns consistently positive reviews in the app stores. William Herrmann, the bank's head of digital, explains how.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

IBM announced Tuesday that it has acquired Trusteer, an Israeli company that provides organizations with counter-fraud and cybersecurity software.

Disclosures that the National Security Agency can crack codes protecting the online traffic of the world's largest Internet companies will inflict more damage than earlier reports of complicity in government spying.

What's in a domain name, you ask? Michael Frederick, who is putting the web address CheckCashing.com up for bid, is hoping the answer is a lot of money.