Bank technology

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.

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.