Bank technology

Aramark cafeteria customers in Basking Ridge, NJ at Verizon's Corporate Headquarters will be the first to get to tap and go at the point of sale with their phones.

The e-commerce giant Amazon.com has started making installment loans to merchants, in the latest outside challenge to banks' traditional business.

JPMorgan Chase will use Swift for managing transaction standards.

DHCU Community Credit Union hopes to reduce expense and IT tasks by shifting to the web-based solution.

Cognizant Technology Solutions has announced an alliance with Monitise to innovate mobile services.

Bank of the West has already begun using Detica NetReveal software to detect suspicious online, wire and ACH payments.

More community banks are paying vendors for online courses that teach workers about the raft of new regulations, how to be a manager and other topics. The new way is cheaper and faster, but has drawbacks.

Prosper Marketplace, the online peer-to-peer loan facilitator, announced Oct. 3 that it hired Josh Tonderys, a former executive at Barclaycard US, to be its chief risk officer.

The bank is placing its stake in the crowded global treasury management market by taking on the tricky IT task of building a centralized payments hub for its financial services and corporate clients.

TraceSecurity has launched TraceCSO, a software offering delivered via the cloud that helps banks manage their data security.

NCR announced Wednesday that Cincinnati payments processor Vantiv has certified NCR's Aptra Edge ATM software. That means that Vantiv (formerly Fifth Third Processing) will allow NCR's ATM management software to run over its network on any teller machine.

Wal-Mart is dipping one more toe into financial services by letting customers reload a range of prepaid cards at its registers — for a fee.

Looking beyond passwords and pins, InAuth announced a new voice biometrics-based authentication module for mobile transactions today.

Computer pioneer Bill Fisher dispenses wisdom, cash and sometimes tough love to fintech startups in the Midwest.

The Bank of Tennessee plans to rely on socially driven collaboration to make mortgage processing and other workflows more agile and efficient. Will Barrett, the bank's senior operations officer, discusses the bank's transformation.

Every brand is a publisher. With that in mind, BTN shares nine best social media ideas offered up by business execs at a recent conference.

Raymond James is moving server farms from Florida to Denver in the hopes of avoiding natural disasters.

Amazon is already making installment loans to merchants while it applies for lending licenses state by state.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. bolsters its mobile banking offers by debuting its first mobile app for the Windows Phone platform.

Few companies could survive the large-scale denial of service attacks that major U.S. banks have been hit with in recent days, Prolexic executives say.