Bank technology

Misys has upgraded its commercial lending software, Loan IQ.

The decision to charge for depositing a check via smartphone or tablet is likely to attract attention from other banks that now give away the service.

Disruptions like Bitcoin can cause massive value destruction and massive value creation.

Look beyond the hype about the price of this digital currency. Because Bitcoin's not just a currency, it's also a payment system, and as such a budding challenger to PayPal, Western Union, Visa, MasterCard, and perhaps banks themselves. Whether the currency is a pot of gold or fool's gold is beside the point, argues Executive Editor Marc Hochstein. The real potential of this technology is as a set of pipes for transmitting value.

A Missouri court has found that a bank provided the right security to prevent wire transfer fraud, and the customer who declined to use it must eat the loss.

Thursday's cyberattack on Wells Fargo — the second the company has acknowledged in nine days — rendered its online and mobile banking inoperable for roughly six hours and continued a wave of denial of service attacks that also has hit JPMorgan Chase, BB&T, American Express and TD Bank in the past three weeks alone.

Wells Fargo (WFC) on Thursday endured the second cyberattack the company has acknowledged in as many weeks.

Akcelerant announced Thursday that users of its financial account management platform can now check the status of loans that have been turned over to Grant & Weber for collection.

The United Nations Federal Credit Union has switched to SS&C Technologies Holdings' (SSNC) investment accounting reporting system.

Recent enforcement actions indicate banks must get better at evaluating the risks associated with their third-party service providers.

Efforts to bolster the nation's cybersecurity will hinge on the willingness of financial firms, utility operators and other owners of critical infrastructure to share information about threats.

Companies may now handle disclosures over social media, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled.

Bank of the West today rolled out new apps for iPhone, Android and iPad devices that include a unique feature: the ability to check balances with a swipe of the app's opening screen, without having to log in first. The bank is the first to use Fiserv's Mobility platform to create Quick Balance.

Intuit will begin piloting its combined PFM and mobile banking offering with banks later this spring.

A group that has claimed responsibility for a flood of cyberattacks on the nation's biggest banks says it was behind an assault last week on the website of American Express (AXP) that left customers of the credit card giant unable to log in to their accounts.

Consumers continue to move to mobile banking although security concerns may keep some bank customers from reaching for their devices.

The global technology services and consulting company said Tuesday it has agreed with UniCredit to manage an entity the companies have formed to oversee the Milan-based bank's receivables, payables and asset-management functions.

Regions Bank said Tuesday that roughly 700 of the company's 2,000 automated teller machines now enable customers to cash checks.

ING Bank announced Tuesday it has appointed Ron van Kemenade as its new CIO. Kemenade most recently served as the CIO of ING's Netherlands operations.

Craig Linville, vice president in the appraisal department at Bank of North Carolina in High Point, found out the hard way that sometimes a bank can grow too quickly for its own good.