Bank technology

These financial services executives won't be sorry to see this year end and are hoping for better results in 2013.

An appeals court has revived a shareholder suit against terminal maker VeriFone over a restatement of its earnings in 2007.

Barclays, Sovereign and other companies are taking more control over the electronic gadgets their employees use, assigning them iPads and other devices instead of letting them use their personal tech at work.

Payments processor TSYS will be able to offer a Square-like card reader to micro merchants now that its purchase of ProPay is complete.

A new app from U.S. Bancorp lets customers obtain and manage a FlexPerks Visa card.

The industry returned to sustainable (albeit tepid) profitability this year and housing appears to have bottomed. Regulatory fines and litigation continue to cast a pall on the future, however.

The crisis gave financial innovation a bad rap. Don't let that stifle fresh thinking.

Citi appears to be the latest victim of hacktivists.

McDonald's is adding more tap-and-go acceptance at its payment terminals worldwide.

2012 was not the kindest of years to Google's mobile wallet, starting as it did with a security breach and ending with speculation that the a plastic card will be added to the otherwise entirely digital wallet.

Users of popular smart phone devices are more inclined to shop and bank on their fraud-prone devices and therefore bigger targets for cybercrime, analysts say.

Banking was a tough business to thrive in over the past year. These ten executives stood out for savvy moves that enabled their companies to beat the odds.

National Australia Bank has begun a 10-year technology makeover that will modernize virtually everything it does.

Start the New Year right, with new ways to think about widening your bank's customer base, lowering your legal costs, mentoring your executives, maximizing tech investments and more.

Championed by CEO Jay Hooley, boston-based State Street is remapping a huge technology infrastructure to reap the benefits of the cloud and big data.

Bank of Montreal will work with Monitise on its smartphone apps, mobile websites and text-based banking services.

This has been a difficult year to run a foreign-owned bank in the United States, but BBVA Compass aims to parlay a recent core overhaul into new growth opportunities in 2013, CEO Manolo Sanchez says.

The languishing of the Citi 2G card shows how even the most impressive new technologies can struggle to find a foothold in payments.

A new iPad app from Planwise, a personal finance management startup out of San Francisco, lets consumers visualize their cash flow way down the road.

America First Credit Union will offer merchant-funded rewards through its online banking site.