Bank technology

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."

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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.

Groupon's newly unveiled card reader is more than a me-too device. It's the first step in a far larger payments strategy.

Kabbage plans to use its new capital to forge partnerships with data companies and develop data tools for its customers.

Goldman Sachs is turning to IO, a provider of modular data center technology and services, for data center help across North America, Europe and Asia.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has developed best practices for developers of mobile payment technology, with a heavy emphasis on shielding data and unauthorized access.

Groupon is the latest of many companies to provide merchants with a card reader that clips to smartphones. But the daily-deals company is not simply selling a me-too device — it is planting the seeds of a bigger payments strategy.

The New York bank is following Wells Fargo into offering emailed receipts.

The number of Near Field Communication announcements in the payments industry seemingly increased quickly last week after it was revealed that Apple's iPhone 5 would not have an NFC chip.

Regions Bank is including its cash-back program in all its new mobile apps.

Software company Oracle is offering its own version of an in-store payment system similar to the ones used in Apple Stores.

Calling the bank an American-Zionist property, cyber attackers threaten to continue until video is "erased."

MasterCard announced this week a software toolkit to help turn any Near Field Communication enabled Android or Blackberry smartphone into a mobile wallet.

The Japanese bank will offer customers a device that generates one-time passwords.

More than 1,100 legal entity identifiers — Social Security numbers of a sort for businesses — have been registered.