Bank technology

City Bank Texas's latest mobile update points to its greater goal of enticing customers to a lower cost channel while also solving customer pain points.

Antivirus and security software company Kaspersky Lab reported good and bad news Thursday in its latest look at the state of spam and phishing all over the world. The amount of spam and phishing attacks being generated remains steady, but malicious email attachments are increasing, the most popular of which are banking Trojans.

The U.S. is planning for a possible wave of computer attacks against banks and other companies by hackers connected to Syria or Iran in retaliation for any military strike against the government of Bashar al-Assad, according to a person familiar with the planning.

PNC Financial Services (PNC) has completed an initiative to upgrade 3,600 ATMs across all of its regions.

Wells Fargo (WFC) is temporarily waiving all fees on remittances to the Philippines to make it easier for customers to send aid to flood victims in the Southeast Asian country.

Banks have good reason to pay attention to the cyberattack that hit the New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post websites.

Cardlytics, a card transaction analytics and marketing company based in Atlanta, is crossing the Atlantic for the first time to partner with U.K. holding company Lloyds Banking Group.

Disaster recovery. Offering customers job-search help. Penetrating underserved markets. Dishing out ice cream to promote a brand. Financial institutions have a multitude of reasons for deploying services on wheels. Here are five financial institutions offering services via motor vehicle across the country.

FeeX announced Wednesday it has closed a $3 million Series A financing round from Blumberg Capital.

A New Jersey credit union has agreed to accept accounts transferred from a trading exchange that handles Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. The move, apparently aimed at attracting business from investors and financial institutions that trade in the alternative forms of tender, could provide them with a much needed level of legitimacy. Staff reporters discuss.

Many banks are trying to lure newly affluent age groups with high-tech services, but they might have better luck adopting a mom-and-pop approach, according to research from corporate anthropologist Andrea Simon.

Why a community bank has committed $500,000 to fledgling tech companies and plans to do more.

Community banks brace for limited selection, but embrace one-stop shopping, as consolidation takes place among IT firms.

History tells us that post-crisis reforms should increase confidence, but still allow regulated entities to innovate and prosper, all in support of a stronger economy.

Amid pressure from regulators, Western Sky Financial plans to close for business early next month.

Fiserv released a banking app for iPad and iPad mini, named Mobiliti: Tablet. The app lets consumers access accounts, pay bills and other people, make mobile deposits, and find ATMs and branches, among other tasks.

Umpqua Bank unveiled a flagship store in San Francisco Monday that shows how the Roseburg, Ore., bank aims to use technology to draw people into its physical footprint.

The personal financial management platform has been grooming select early-stage companies for 16 months. Now, it’s providing more services to entrepreneurs through its incubator program.

NCR is expanding its retail technology footprint into four Chinese shopping malls.

Jack Henry & Associates announced Monday that its Board of Directors has approved a 20 cent per share cash regular, quarterly dividend.