Bank technology

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.

The supplier of enterprise data management products for the securities and investment industry, is now offering its software as a managed service.

The investment and risk advisory arm of Allianz Global Investors is strengthening the analytics and data management of its risk systems.

As branch traffic shrinks and the need to improve customer service grows, video-equipped ATMs are catching on. But is a small location with a video connection and non-existent staff a branch?

Tech giant's new platform reveals ambitious attempt to convince big banks to turn to it for virtually all their IT.

Adopting universal terminology will allow financial institutions to quickly identify, understand and share information about threats, plan for different scenarios and build the systems required to effectively defend their interests.

The New York credit card company is appointing Erich Ringewald, the former CTO of Boku, as its vice president of software product management.

Square announced today that it has closed the Series D financing round that included Starbucks Corp., among other investors.

The mobile financial services startup said Monday that Alex Sion, a former senior vice president of wealth management executive at Citigroup (NYSE: C) who most recently headed the financial services arm of marketing firm SapientNitro, has joined the company as president.

By linking payments to mobile phone numbers, Payfone is hoping to avoid keystrokes for in-store mobile transactions. As the firm ramps up for a pilot this fall, it's found an early merchant acquiring partner in remote payment tech firm CardinalCommerce, which potentially opens the system up to thousands of stores.

Citigroup (C) has added to its collateral management product, OpenCollateral, an option for automated collateral position reconciliation through Swift.

Buffalo-based M&T is offering myriad alerts and customizations of alerts, including "do not disturb" windows in which the bank should leave the customer alone.

Quick response codes seem straightforward, but they're one more playground for cybercriminals.

Beyond serving as the launch pad for more than 60 fintech products and services, FinovateFall, the two-day event held in Manhattan last week, got fintechies to tweet their hearts out about the presenters, their offerings and the temperature of the conference center. Here are our top 10 favorite tweets from the innovation conference:

Bank Marketing Strategy blogger Jim Marous, former senior director of marketing services at Harland Clarke, has been recruited to direct marketing agency New Control.