Bank technology

The marketing analytics software company announced Tuesday a new app that shoots offers and rewards to opted-in bank customers' Facebook inboxes.

Developing new online platforms to lower APRs to 365% is a waste of resources. Instead, lenders can tackle the payday problem by partnering together, cultivating loyalty and capping expected default rates.

The White House is expected to unveil an executive order on Wednesday that aims to bolster safeguards against cyberattacks for industries deemed vital to the nation's well-being.

Continuity Control announced Friday that it has been endorsed as a preferred provider by the Community BancService Corporation (CBSC), a subsidiary of the Community Bankers Association of Illinois that recommends products and services to banks.

Core-banking tech provider Jack Henry is expanding the services it offers banks and credit unions by offering support for prepaid cards, with assistance from TransCard.

The traditional payday loan structure should cease to serve as the standard by which innovation in this credit space is measured.

Personal financial management software provider Planwise announced this week it will join Yodlee's Incubator Program to enhance its product.

Nok Nok Labs, a startup run by the founder of data security vendor PGP, is developing technology that could let biometric authentication mechanisms communicate easily with servers.

The bulwarks of financial privacy may, by default, become unsanctioned, underground networks like Bitcoin and startups run by youngsters brazen, or naive, enough to test the legal and regulatory limits.

Beyond the follower: From facilitating more ways to shop to finding clues to consumers' whereabouts, financial services players are striving to find ways to use social media networks in more interesting ways than making friends.

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.