Bank technology

By partnering with LevelUp, First Trade Union Bank will debut a mobile payment app to customers in 2013.

U.S. Bank (USB) has committed to becoming the first large U.S. bank to offer mobile bill payment in the manner of mobile check deposit — letting users pay a bill by simply taking a picture of it.

The Stamford, Conn. financial services consultancy said it is acquiring Javelin for its work in mobile and multichannel banking, payments, security and fraud, among other expertise.

As banks dig deeper into mobile commerce, they're likely to bump into businesses like telecom and gear-making where development cycles and patent fights are fast and furious.

When industries and business environments evolve, the best and brightest people and organizations in that industry will as well.

New app snaps customer's photo and performs instant age regression.

Banno's financial decisionmaking software will work with ProfitStars' bill payment and mobile deposit tools.

U.S. Bank has partnered with Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group to offer a new rewards card.

Coastal Bank & Trust in Jacksonville, N.C., has signed on to use nCino's nCommercial software to improve its commercial lending process.

Bankers had long paid Equifax and the credit-services unit of Computer Sciences for the same credit reports. Now that they are poised to merge, banks could push for lower fees, experts say.

An online-bank board's appointment of John Keach Jr., a community banker who had to sell his bank this year, provides a ray of hope for industry veterans.

Adyen's excitedly touting its new chip card mobile payments reader. Its potential competitors in the U.S. have responded with a shrug.

Bank Technology News editors have selected the ten companies that will be making waves in financial technology in 2013.

Shortly after Microsoft's October 26 launch of Windows 8, Bank of America came out with a mobile banking app for the radically redesigned, touch-enabled operating system.

The acquisition will add more than 1,500 mortgage risk specialists to service provider MphasiS and help the company provide more intense mortgage risk analysis.

Equifax (EFX) has agreed to buy the credit services business of Computer Sciences (CSC) for $1 billion in cash.

New research from The Adcom Group of Companies details consumers' pet peeves about mobile apps.

Alma Bank, a new bank in Queens, was quickly becoming overwhelmed with documents and made the decision to automate.

As Heartland Financial grew larger, it needed a better way to produce detailed reports on its commercial loan portfolio and to measure risk.

UMB Bank is finding that requiring customers to choose a loyalty program on their card at the point of purchase can lead to precise marketing.