Bank technology

On Oct. 22 the joint venture of AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA will begin its much-publicized launch in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas.

Daniel Schulman at American Express and Daniel Eckert at Walmart visited our offices and explained how they believe their new Bluebird account will shake up the status quo in financial services.

Fresh off the controversy about her prepaid card, financial guru is trying something more offbeat — a museum exhibit about money in conjunction with the producer of "Body Worlds."

We need more experts who can investigate what happened and identify the perpetrators of attacks rather than simply focus on protecting our critical infrastructure.

Cybercriminals are reportedly prepping new attacks that can "clone" computers by bypassing commonly used device protection.

The regional bank is the ninth company to be hit with distributed denial of service attacks allegedly perpetrated by group affiliated with Iran.

Wincor Nixdorf is joining the ranks of ATM manufacturers providing software for pre-staging transactions.

Relying solely on a fortress mentality that trusts in firewalls, antivirus and other countermeasure technologies has been shown, time and again, to be insufficient.

When it comes to borrower vetting, there's some information that only originators are checking.

Cloud-based storage services store customers' bank account documents and passwords, for a fee.

Nonbank competitors are forcing financial institutions to utilize new skills sets. Conservative thinkers must now be imaginative, followers must become visionaries and the risk adverse must embrace uncertainty. Here's how to develop a forward-looking strategy in the changing landscape.

New online lender NetCredit originates personal loans with high interest rates.

The system now provides financial advisers with access to tax tools, account details and trading information.

Bricks-and-mortar locations aren’t yet obsolete. Leading banks are responding to changing consumer demands by developing specialized branch formats, increasing their focus on advice and emphasizing proactive engagement with customers.

Leader Bank, U.S. Bank, ING Direct and others are using new tools to encourage consumers to save instead of splurge.

The Common Global Implementation Initiative, based in Brussels, said Wednesday it has published best-practice guidelines for ISO20222, a format designed to give companies and banks a common worldwide language for their communications.

River City Bank in Sacramento, Calif., has named a payments-technology veteran to its board of directors.

Fast-growing State Bank and Trust in Macon, Ga., has purchased substantially all of the assets of Altera Payroll, a payroll services company, to diversify its revenue stream.

Gresham Computing has released a new version of its Clareti Transaction Control platform.

Quotas and formulas do not pave the path to success on social media, according to Citigroup's Frank Eliason.