Bank technology

The Georgia community bank converted its 300+ staff to Google Apps for Business, signaling a continuing, albeit slow, trend of banks going to the cloud for email service.

The credit-card issuer is making a bid to become a player in the growing world of branchless consumer banking.

Now, with an ATM that directly converts paper cash to bitcoin anonymously, the interaction is with a machine rather than another human. No more face-to-face meetings, no more counterparty risk.

Online Resources Corp. (ORCC) announced Wednesday an updated version of its web-based debt collection tool for financial institutions and billers.

The mortgage lender and servicer New American Funding has chosen Ellie Mae's mortgage-management system.

A study of consumer preferences finds that banks should broaden their views of personal financial management tools and help customers with everyday spend management.

JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday convened its top executives to discuss its growth strategies. Expansion will be hard as it cuts 17,000 jobs over two years, wrestles with new regulations and rethinks branching.

Fisoc has added a community bank and four credit unions to its Buzz Points program. Buzz Points is a merchant-funded loyalty program that helps banks and credit unions connect to consumers and merchants through social media and offer rewards.

In the future, wearable computing — such as Google's recently hyped Glass — could be a boon for programmers looking to create financial services software for banks.

KPMG's latest Data Loss Barometer offers clues to shifts in how cyber-theft occurs, with good and bad news for bankers.

The bank kicked off its college student coding competition this weekend. Jamie Dimon attended in a track suit.

Financial technology firm Verdande is partnering with software company ITRS Group to improve its product for identifying and preventing system failures.

BTN editors Penny Crosman and Mary Wisniewski have selected the ten most progressive mobile banking apps, taking into account application features, design and ease of use.

Visa is teaming up with phonemaker Samsung Electronics to provide a financial program to enable mobile handsets to be used like a credit or debt card.

Prepaid card issuer Green Dot (GDOT) has extended its payment processing contract with Total System Services (TSS), the prepaid company disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday.

The payments network will now allow merchants to offer discounts to customers who use specific cards, as new CEO Charles Scharf rethinks how Visa does business.

Coinbase makes it simple to buy and sell bitcoins via a bank account, but plays only to the low-fee, frictionless nature of Bitcoin and fails to leverage its unique privacy aspects.

Barclaycard US has tapped a longtime bank technology executive to serve as chief operating officer.

The largest credit-card issuer in Israel has deployed software from Personetics to enhance the digital customer experience while reducing the amount of calls coming to the call center.

As USAA readies a new voice assistant for its iPhone app, exec Neff Hudson shares the backstory and thinking behind the creation of that digital persona.