Bank technology

American Express said Monday it is working with Twitter to expand its cardholders' ability to shop over the social networking site.

The bank is improving its teller capture technology to accommodate business customers with large batches of checks and to provide later check deposit cut-off times.

What did mobile wallets look like before Apple and its peers invented the consumer smartphone market and launched App Stores to distribute systems like Passbook, Isis and Google Wallet?

Bit9, a software security company that says three of the top 10 Fortune 500 banks are among its clients, has been hacked and was temporarily being used by criminals to help spread malicious software.

United Community Banks in Blairsville, Ga., has renewed its contract with Fiserv and added the fintech company's debit card services.

A cashless society is all well and good. But without the option of private, untraceable payments, life would become unbearable and institutions like marriage and religion could suffer.

The PCI Security Standards Council, the payment card security standards forum based in Wakefield, Mass., has published guidelines for protecting sensitive data in the cloud.

Apple (AAPL) has been notoriously slow at venturing into mobile payments transactions. The latest iteration of its mobile operating system, iOS6, is a testament to the crawl.

Fidelity National Information Services has launched a person-to-person payment product that the company hopes will promote greater adoption of P2P payments by nature of its speed and openness.

Kathleen Craig, a Michigan community banker and mother of two, has created a mobile app that teaches children to save.

Generation Mortgage has unveiled a new platform for originations called Orchestrator, which it says is an Internet-based system that improves service for companies that originate loans on Generation's behalf.

Once you stop chuckling at the political incorrectness and retro-futurism of this 1959 speech, you sense the privacy dangers that lurk ahead for us in the present day.

Financial malware toolkits Tinba and Tilon hijacked communications between banks and customers in real time. Now they’re taking a simpler approach.

The story of Barings speaks to another era, but also to banking's eternal vulnerabilities.

First Hawaiian Bank announced Friday a new iPad app that it's making available to its online banking customers. According to the bank, it's the first in its state to offer an iPad app.

Unlike the soon-to-be-discontinued Facebook Credits, the new Amazon Coins have a ready marketplace with consumers and merchants.

A swiftly evolving threat from cyberattacks has business leaders feeling rattled.

nCino has updated its cloud-based software for the financial services industry.

Diebold said it's paying its investors 28.75 cents a share.

The subsidiary of the Purchase, N.Y. card network is working with analytics company Mu Sigma to better aggregate anonymous purchase behavior data that is sold to merchants.