Bank technology

Square Inc., which has been promising to expand internationally since it received a $25 million investment from Starbucks Corp., said today it is making its mobile-pay product available in Canada.

Visa CEO Joseph Saunders will retire on November 1, giving the reins of the world's largest payments company to longtime JPMorgan executive Charles Scharf.

Marble Access provides an end-to-end hardened environment that protects against Trojans, man-in-the-middle, man-in-the-browser, malevolent Wi-Fi networks and DNS poisoning attacks, Marble Cloud, formerly known as IronKey, said last week.

Numerica Credit Union recently held what amounts to a happy hour at its branches, except instead of cocktails, people were given $5 checks and shown how to use phones to deposit those checks.

Visa, delivering on its promise of greater issuer support for its V.me digital wallet, announced U.S. Bank as its latest partner.

Kofax, a company that automates business processes for financial companies and other firms, has introduced an application that lets mortgage lenders capture information from borrowers by taking a pictures of documents with a mobile device.

Attunity has partnered with Teradata to offer a data replication product for enterprise analytics.

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters Group, which has claimed responsibility for recent cyberattacks on at least 10 banks, said Tuesday it would halt further strikes over the next few days in honor of an upcoming Islamic religious holiday.

The Mesa, Ariz. company said it is expanding a previous pilot that found success at several regional credit unions.

Payments startup Chirpify, which had originally focused primarily on Twitter, is now letting people buy things on Instagram, too.

Groups like CO-OP Financial and the Smartcard Alliance seek to be information portals as payment card security standards evolve toward the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard.

Discover Financial Services (DFS) updated its iPhone mobile app last Wednesday to include reward redemption functionality for its partner gift cards, electronic gift certificates and Discover gift cards.

Visa prepaid card users can now deposit paper checks to their card accounts by taking a photo of the check with their smartphones.

Mortgage software provider Ellie Mae is adding features to its Encompass360 software platform that can streamline production of loan documents.

PayPal, in a recent agreement with MoneyGram International, is demonstrating once again that digital payment systems aren't fighting cash — they are fueled by it.

Spectrum Verification Services Platform provides loan-level verifications by combining unique data assets with integrated workflow processes to reduce fraud, improve overall loan quality and reduce costs, Equifax said Monday.

U.S. banks have been struggling to ward off a flurry of distributed denial of service attacks over the last few weeks. Here are ways in which the cyberwar can be won.

Isis, the mobile-wallet joint venture formed by AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, launched its test today in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas.

At this year's FinTech 100 breakfast, we recognized all the companies who made it into our FinTech 100 and Enterprise 25 rankings. Here are some highlights.