Bank technology

The Detroit online lender recently licensed its loan origination platform to JPMorgan Chase last month and struck a co-branding deal with Charles Schwab Bank; now it is looking to grow profits by selling components of its mortgage technology to other banks.

BBVA has announced plans to invest $100 million in early-stage, high-potential, high risk tech startups. It's following a path successfully forged by Citigroup.

ACI Worldwide and Fidelity National Information Services each announced acquisitions of companies that provide payments technology.

Webster Bank is expanding its long-term relationship with technology provider FIS.

The patent positions the company to "own" parts of the technology that help calculate required mortgage fee disclosures.

HSBC, the $2.7 trillion-asset company, said Wednesday it has named James Comey, a former U.S. deputy attorney general, to its board and formed a new board committee to oversee compliance with laws that aim to deter money laundering and other crimes.

BlackBerry 10 was unveiled on Wednesday, along with a slew of enterprise applications from partners like Cisco and SAP. Will this be enough to bring the once-mighty player back into the banking fold?

With the start of a new year has come a flurry of personal financial management (PFM) announcements to whip banking customers into better financial health.

The branchless bank has created a way for its customers to suspend a debit card using Simple's mobile app.

Empire Bank's push to get small businesses to use electronic transactions focuses on clarifying terms that banks and businesses often use differently.

Card fraud is now harder to perpetrate in parts of the world that have adopted the new technology, so criminals appear to be focusing more on the United States.

Cedar Falls, Iowa, start-up Banno, which sells website hosting and software services to financial services companies, has appointed Charles E. Potts as its company president.

CircleUp, an online investing site for consumer goods companies, gets a boost from its relationships with General Mills and Procter & Gamble and considers itself a disruptor to the investment banking industry.

Identity-security firm HID Global and biometrics company BehavioSec have released a fraud-detection system that relies on behavioral cues like typing speed and pressure to identify security breaches.

Fiserv announced Tuesday it has signed its first client for its retirement income technology Retirement Illustrator.

Now that a version of a trailer for an anti-Muslim film has been removed from YouTube, the al-Qassam Cyber Fighters say they will suspend their denial of service attacks against banks.

The tech giant's iOS 6.1 update includes a voice recognition feature that allows iPhone users to purchase theater tickets through the movie app Fandango.

Dexter Credit Union, a Rhode Island credit union, now uses technology from Q2ebanking for online banking, text banking and mobile apps.

An Anonymous group hacker who was responsible for planning attacks against PayPal has been sentenced to 18 months in a British jail, according to a report from The Register, a technology news and opinion website.

CO-OP Financial Services hopes the model used in one of the oldest staples of credit union cooperation, the shared branch, can drive new digital commerce innovation and help get a leg up on banks.