Bank technology

Websites and mobile apps from RES.NET and Equator are helping banks move distressed REO loans faster.

When it comes to adopting new technology and ideas, U.S. bankers have a lot to learn from their peers in other countries. The reasons often have to do with culture and regulation. Here are a few examples of foreign banks that are ahead of the pack.

Coastal Federal Credit Union hopes remote deposit will be a competitive differentiator.

App for Android and Apple devices lets customers redeem mobile coupons at the point of sale.

As it dissolves in the wake of anti-money laundering violations, First Bank of Delaware Owes $15 million to Uncle Sam.

Wells Fargo has opened a new online business center, while Canada's Wave Accounting makes a U.S. push for its hosted payroll system.

The bank is combining a campaign to get institutional clients use paperless statements with donations to the Plant-for-the-Planet Billion Tree Campaign.

TSYS in Columbus, Ga., would be able to offer a rival to Square's mobile card reader and tap a new market of small merchants once it completes its acquisition of ProPay.

With the fifth generation of its platform for underwriting loans for the underbanked, the Google offshoot startup says it's got a superior, and far more accurate, model.

ME Bank in Melbourne, Australia, will use software from Temenos to support its growth over the next three years.

California credit union to let customers open accounts and originate loans on iPads.

Angling to better engage branch customers, First Victoria National Bank has started to film rapping tellers and singing customers and post the videos on its YouTube channel.

Flint Mobile Inc. announced today that its mobile card-acceptance app is available to on Apple Inc.'s app store.

The banking giant is planning to offer a point of sale dongle that will take direct aim at rivals from Square and PayPal.

Wallaby Financial and Glyph have released mobile apps that help consumers decide how to pay at checkout. Banks can take part by making sure their cards have rewards and pricing that put them at the top of the list.

The world's most popular web publishing platform has begun accepting Bitcoin, an international digital currency and payment system with no central issuing authority.

A bill to protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks has again failed to clear a congressional hurdle.

Total System Services Inc. announced today that it reached an agreement to purchase ProPay, a Lehi, Utah-based payments technology provider.

There's a staggering market for mobile financial services, if only the stakeholders who stand to benefit could get out of their own way.

The Silicon Valley mobile payments company made the "humblebrag" over Twitter.