Bank technology

Digital Insight, which sells technology to banks, announced Monday it hired a new chief executive: John O'Malley.

Three years after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, many bankers are still anxious as they wait for some rules to be written and others to be implemented. Yet a new set of regulatory and legislative challenges looms.

With every action now being scrutinized in real time, banks don't necessarily need guidelines and mandates to know if they are doing right by customers and shareholders, Fifth Third CEO Kevin Kabat says at American Banker's Regulatory Symposium.

A new mobile dashboard offered by Garanti Bank lets consumers decide what widgets appear in their dashboards, including spending management tools.

Financial technology firm FIS has released a suite of analytics applications to help banks improve their marketing, pricing and special offer programs.

A European hacker collective has cracked Apple's new biometric security scheme within days of the release of the iPhone 5s.

In order to prevent cyber attacks and keep the financial system safe, banks have to understand the key threats to the industry. We asked two top banking regulators what they're worried about right now.

An old malware variant has revisited roughly two dozen financial institutions — among them Bank of America, Capital One, U.S. Bancorp and Sovereign Bank — according to in-the-cloud security company Zscaler.

Fiserv announced Thursday that First National Bank of Long Island is using its common origination loan platform.

Panini has promoted Michael Pratt to CEO, replacing John O'Malley, who has left to pursue other interests, the Torino, Italy-based financial technology company announced Sept. 20.

London police arrested eight men in connection to a 1.3 million pound ($2.1 million) computer-aided robbery from a Barclays Plc branch in the capital.

A three-year-old bank that's never had a loan it's originated default, Opus uses stress-testing software to brace for darker times.

Sevier County Bank in Tennessee decided its loyal customers are its best promotion and created an interactive blog about their experiences with the bank, including the story of one woman who goes 20 miles out of her way to keep banking there.

The latest version of customer management software from FICO aims to offer clients faster, more advanced customer analytics.

Swift's innovation offshoot Innotribe announced the winners of its worldwide Startup Challenge Thursday. The top startup award, worth $50,000, went to KlickEx, which has developed a regulated clearing service for central and commercial banks.

Bank card originations increased sharply last quarter, reaching their highest level since the financial crisis as more creditworthy customers took out new cards.

A new survey by SAP suggests consumers worldwide are embracing more complex transactions on their mobile devices.

Infosys is releasing a new version of its Finacle core banking product Wednesday, one that has been broken up into pieces with the goal of letting banks take on the new software at their own pace.

In August 2009, Deutsche Bank established a production studio in Cary, N.C., that has grown into an innovation lab through a partnership with North Carolina State University. This is the first in a series of profiles of banks' innovation labs.

Personal financial management company Geezeo has launched a site to instruct developers on how to use its API.