Bank technology

Banking technology firm Calypso has expanded its quantitative staff with the addition of a new director of financial engineering.

Fiserv has launched an online portal designed to provide a simpler and more cost-effective way for financial institutions to monitor their performance and risk.

With the clock ticking for ATM owners to begin accepting EMV chip cards, BPC Banking Technologies plans to bring software to the U.S. to help banks navigate the complex conversion to smart-card technology on their ATM fleets.

The bank has begun providing account balance forecasts for interested online banking customers, signaling a continuing trend of financial services players offering consumers deeper insights into their own transactions.

Wells Fargo & Co. announced Monday that it's revamped its automated teller machine user interface, creating new features and streamlining the device's design.

File-sharing website Mega has begun accepting bitcoins to pay for its storage subscriptions, its controversial founder Kim Dotcom announced over Twitter last week.

Payment servicer Verifone will be supplying 3,200 payment terminals to Galeries Lafayette.

JPMorgan Chase's website suffered outages for a few hours on Friday. The nation's biggest bank by assets says it is researching the cause.

The anonymous digital currency Bitcoin, which is already accepted on the Wordpress blogging site, has another mainstream partner. Reddit, the social news and entertainment site, now accepts bitcoins as payment for Reddit Gold, a subscription service.

President Obama's executive order on cybersecurity calls on intelligence agencies to share information about digital threats with the private sector, but the agencies may have trouble sharing information themselves.

Physical cash is on its way out and won't be missed, but even in an all-digital future the option of anonymous, untraceable consumer payments must remain

BBVA Compass is leveraging its parent's three-year-old partnership with the NBA in offering basketball fans a branchless banking account.

The White House has issued an executive order on cybersecurity. Now the hard work begins.

Visa's introduction of a global mobile money program doesn't make it a pioneer in using handsets to tap underserved locales, but it does bring scale, open-loop flexibility and likely a lot of future bank issuers to a market that's currently heavy on regional telecom partnerships with closed-loop systems.

Canada's second-largest credit union has gone live on Temenos' banking software.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has terminated an enforcement action against Rurban Financial (RBNF) in Defiance, Ohio, tied to its information-technology unit.

Regions Financial (RF) is taking steps to spur economic development in its home state of Alabama.

Flagstar Bancorp (FBC) in Troy, Mich., has agreed to sell DocVelocity, its document-imaging business, to mortgage tech company Capsilon.

PFM firm Pageonce has expanded its bill pay capabilities to include small, local billers. But its ambitions go way beyond bill payment.

Developers are starting to add collaboration tools to mobile banking and personal financial management apps to provide better information sharing (or non-sharing, as the case may be) for couples.