Bank technology

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GoldenSource, a provider of enterprise data management software for the financial services industry, has launched a dashboard and data visualization product aimed at driving efficient regulatory reporting.

New Jersey bank hopes to better match staff with customer traffic at its branches.

Small-business owners are largely cheering Square's decision to offer merchants the choice between a flat monthly fee and a per-transaction charge for credit card processing, but some still raise concerns about the service.

The American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Roundtable are accumulating endorsers for a plan to funnel registration applications for new .bank and .insurance domains. But the groups aren't alone in chasing the new bank-friendly domain.

Isis, the mobile-payment joint venture backed by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, is on track for a debut in September, following months of delays and a change in strategy last year.

The company says its new EC12 server is suited to cloud computing and enterprise data.

The Portsmouth, N.H., cloud-based payment, invoice and banking company is rolling out a corporate portal application with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

The North Carolina payments technology company, which gives its customers access to 30 different payment gateways, will allow its users to begin accepting payments from Dwolla this week.

Issuers should develop strategies to make their account the primary one in a consumer's existing wallet and on new payment tools offered by companies like PayPal or Square.

Fiserv has hired Ginger Schmeltzer, formerly SunTrust's senior vice president of digital channel management, to be its senior vice president of emerging payments and digital payment solutions, a newly created position.

Existing customers are generally praising Square's new flat monthly fee for processing card transactions, but Square's challenge will be winning over business owners who are on the fence about its services.

Compliance software providers are pivoting off this summer's Libor crisis to sell products intended to help banks change controls, communicate policies to staff and ensure adherence to internal rules.

Ventura County Credit will use the company's per-closed-loan pricing model.

In building its homegrown app for small businesses, the Chicago unit of the San Juan bank focused on letting business owners control who can do what on a mobile device.

Buyer of Merrill Lynch's non-U.S. wealth management operations suffered a loss of customer data that has been passed on to authorities.

The rumor mill is catching fire as Apple nears its next product launch. Changes to the iPhone, iPad and other systems could affect initiatives at many payments companies.

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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has outbid its competitors to snag about a third of the ATMs, the most of any financial institution, located at the busiest airport in New England.

Can corporate policy training feel like an episode of CSI? Cristobal Conde believes it can in a big way. The former SunGard chief arrives at True Office, a firm that uses elements of gaming to help institutions teach corporate employees about how to prevent data breaches, money laundering and other standards and compliance issues that reside inside banks and other businesses.