Bank technology

Gateway Mortgage Group has chosen Fiserv's mortgage servicing platform to improve its ability to mitigate losses.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch launched Monday an analytics dashboard aimed at helping treasurers handle their cash.

Tom Sanzone, former IT head at several of the largest U.S. banks, weighs in on the cyber war banks are fighting and how the chief information security officer’s role is getting bigger and more important.

The startup scene offers a glimpse into what the future of banking services will look like.

In an attempt to undercut U.S. banks by giving consumers free ATM access, Discover Financial Services will provide its card holders with access to surcharge-free ATMs via a partnership with Allpoint Network.

The bank of the future is a humanizing bank, where the focus is on relationships, intimacy, depth, and human connection – supported by technology.

Green Dot Corp.'s GoBank account is being featured on Lifetime's Project Runway.

Yodlee has announced a new suite of wealth management tools available for banks and investment firms to offer their clients, collectively called WealthCenter.

SIFMA's staged cyberattack Thursday was declared a success (at least by SIFMA). But experts say banks still need to put more defenses in place to protect their infrastructures.

In a hearing held by a House subcommittee Thursday, trade groups representing technology companies shared their views on a point of keen interest to banks: whether or not Congress should turn the hodgepodge network of existing state laws on data breaches into one, national law.

Online outrage this week over low wages at McDonald's has drawn in Visa, the processor of its payroll cards. The criticism comes as the cards in general and McDonald's version in particular are drawing mounting scrutiny for the fees they charge workers.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

Banks have a great deal of data available, but lack the technology to make the most of it, a Deloitte survey has confirmed. Almost a third of banks don't even use analytics in strategic decisions because they don't have the right software.

Innovations from nonbanks will need a platform to provide distribution and the ability to scale quickly. Smart bankers will partner with startups to provide together what neither could do alone.

The editors of American Banker's BankThink blog discuss an ongoing series, "The Future Model of Banking," in which contributors envision products and services tomorrow's banks can offer that add value and that customers will happily pay for.

A staged cyber assault meant to test banks' response to cyber threats took place Thursday from the middle of the morning to early in the afternoon.

The $940 million credit union will begin using Insight, a processing system co-developed by COCC and its former rival Open Solutions and licensed by COCC, it said Thursday.

Raymond James Financial (RJF) in St. Petersburg, Fla., announced Thursday it will use Hearsay Social to support its employees' use of social media.

Since Apple released the iPhone in 2007, mobile banking apps for retail banking customers have become a must have. Yet, one customer type has been neglected in the app stores: small business owners.

After failing to respond to customer demand and missing tectonic shifts in money transmission and online and mobile payments, banks have an opportunity in the emerging area of cryptographic money.