Bank technology

Wells Fargo (WFC) said Tuesday that some of its customers had trouble logging on to its website, roughly a week after online customers of Bank of America (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) encountered similar delays.

Mercantile Bank of Grand Rapids bank is exploring how to make the most out of its content on a touch-screen kiosk. One idea? Use it as a photo booth.

Banker sentiment echoes Google research suggesting consumers expect sub-five-second mobile app downloads.

Senior Vice President and Marketing Group Manager Susan Brown discusses how the bank is upgrading services for both businesses and consumers.

Ellie Mae is adding support for automated good faith estimates to its mortgage handling software.

Firms like Digital Risk and Corelogic are experimenting with software that uses behavioral analysis to determine which homeowners will repay and which will default.

New Jersey payment messaging software company is helping a coal producer handle international payment messages.

TD Bank relaunches its U.S. banking website in a bid to make it easier to use.

Scotiabank in Canada has started issuing cards on the American Express (AXP) network, the companies said on Monday.

Accenture is bringing across London its fintech incubator concept, which it has run for years as a New York partnership with city officials and several large banks.

Portal provider upgrades ability to sort through documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Ann Cairns, MasterCard's head of international markets, was optimistic about the company's prospects abroad Thursday, even as MasterCard warned that its revenue growth is slowing.

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Facebook added software tools to make it easier for developers on its system to accept payments made from mobile devices.

Can ATM messaging prompt consumers to like and follow their banks? Regions, which will promote social media via ATMs in 2013, and Wells, which has done so for some time, believe the answer is "yes."

Brevity is the soul of wit — and sometimes fintech news. With that in mind, Bank Technology News (@BankTechNews) will run a weekly roundup of our favorite financial services-related tweets.

Silicon Valley Bank's online and mobile payment portal for small businesses lets them create a single workflow for varied payment types.

The San Jose, Calif., company's new system that secures data in cloud implementations is broadening the array of products it supports.

Oak Bank of Chicago plans to use the Premier core processing platform, as well as Fiserv products for mobile banking, branch capture and merchant source capture.

A financial industry group is warning members to be on the lookout for digital threats amid slowdowns at the websites of two of the nation's biggest banks.