Bank technology

It's a truism among financial institutions that not all revenue is created equal: some revenue costs a lot more to produce. Yet among many organizations, the exact costs related to specific revenue remain a mystery.

PNC Bank's defensive mechanisms cause it a new round of online banking access issues.

Bremer Bank will use Mobiliti product for mobile banking, payments and alerts.

451 Group, a New York-based technology research and analyst firm, has purchased Yankee Group in an effort to expand its research and analysis of mobile technology and markets.

Deals such as NCR's purchase of uGenius accelerate the evolution toward smaller, self-service-heavy financial centers.

National Credit-reporting System is working with eSignSystems to provide a broader use of electronic signatures in the loan process.

Fulton Financial in Lancaster, Pa., has approved a new share repurchase program.

Prolexic, a provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services based in Hollywood, Fla., has released detection and mitigation rules.

NCR Corp. purchased the Sandy, Utah-based video banking software maker uGenius Technology Inc.

Have you ever caught yourself paying a $3 ATM fee to avoid driving across town? Add up the value of your time, gasoline costs, the need to complete a necessary task and it's easy to justify that $3.

BankThink editors Marc Hochstein and Jeanine Skowronski recap 10 of the blog's posts they found most memorable in 2012.

Envisioned as a way for card issuers to limit the impact of debit card fee caps, the devices have become victims of more alluring alternatives.

Efforts to boost consumer adoption focus on imaging via smartphone cameras.

Credit bureau Experian now lets people create their own dashboards and reports based on its database of 230 million Americans' financial transactions.

We revisit some of the best comments readers posted to AmericanBanker.com and BankThink.com in 2012.

Recent distributed denial of service attacks have turned large-bank competitors into a network of close allies.

U.S. Bank is moving forward with mobile photo-enabled bill payment. The move's attracting lots of attention, since the tech has a godo chance to be the next big thing in mobile banking.

Banks have long heavily leveraged iPhones for mobile apps, but Android's picking up share fast. Javelin crunches the numbers.

What's wrong with passwords? Plenty, if you ask almost anyone. The traditional user name and password is old and unsafe. The alternative is "bring your own ID" - voice, fingerprint and facial recognition technology that's emerging from tests into production.

When account opening was proving too slow, AloStar Bank of Commerce turned to a solution that automatically performs identity and credit checks.