Bank technology

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.

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Good Technology has developed mobile security technology that provides risk-based access to buildings, servers and transactions.

The OCC told financial institutions to report cyber attacks to law enforcement and alert customers to their impact as new assaults targeted PNC and other banks.

The Winston-Salem, N.C., regional bank is weathering its second distributed denial-of-service attack this year after some customers who visited the bank's website were unable to log on.

Chase Bank has agreed to acquire merchant offers company Bloomspot. The deal is expected to close in early 2013.

MoneyDesktop, a PFM startup and credit union service provider, will embed budgeting and spending tools directly into web banking.

We revisit our 10 most popular BankThink posts of 2012, based on audience page views.

Card company Capital One ties donations of phone minutes to downloads of its mobile banking app.

If banks apply a standard of parity, they will wind up in a holding pattern because right now and for the foreseeable future, Internet banking is not keeping pace with mobile platforms.