Bank technology

Twitter put in place a multi-factor authentication system last month that mixes in-app generated codes and text message confirmations. Banks might benefit from a similar approach.

Alex Alden, formerly of UBS, has joined brokerage firm Sterne Agee to expand the financial technology practice of its investment bank.

Fiserv has introduced a service to help companies predict their customers' behavior.

The social media management software company Hearsay Social announced Thursday that it has doubled its customer base and just got $30 million in Series C funds from existing investors Sequoia Capital and NEA.

A new smartphone app from financial software provider Akcelerant aims to help lenders tap into the market for mobile loan applications.

As they reimagine their branches, banks are also testing ways to modernize their drive-through stations to adjust to a digital era. Ideas include using video tellers and touchscreens.

IBM announced Wednesday that it's working with Monitise (MONI), a British mobile financial technology company, to create mobile banking, payment and commerce services for the cloud.

In a unique partnership announced Wednesday, City National Bank is working with cloud-based accounting software company Xero to integrate its online banking site for small-business customers with Xero's technology.

A new outsourcing model breaks work up into tiny pieces and farms it out to large groups of freelancers, taking advantage of "cognitive surplus."

Two years after a data breach that compromised hundreds of thousands of customer accounts, Citibank has agreed to pay a $55,000 settlement to Connecticut.

In an effort to battle Chinese hackers, Australian researchers are working on facial recognition technology, according to reports.

Marketing data analytics company Acxiom has announced that it will begin letting consumers see some of the data it's collected on them.

A new wearable computing wristband from Canadian startup Bionym that is expected to ship in early 2014 could be used to unlock banking apps and doors.

Australia's ANZ Group is launching a smartphone app called ANZ Transactive Mobile that it says helps streamline cash management for corporate customers.

Black Hills Federal Credit Union announced enhancements to its digital banking services made possible through the use of technology from Fiserv.

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Retail giant Target is touting its success with a debit card that poses a threat to banks, but it's unclear whether other merchants will be able to follow suit.

BBVA Compass CIO Sergio Fidalgo has been promoted to head of applications and architecture for the bank's parent company, Madrid-based BBVA Group.

Former Citigroup payments executive Raja Rajamannar will be the new chief marketing officer at MasterCard, effective September 9.