Bank technology

Howard Boville, a network executive, was hired away from British Telecom.

If transportation is a leading indicator of payments technology, the joint project between Metro North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road could be a boost for bar-code-based payments.

Company is offering a self-assessment guide to the mortgage reform aspects of the law.

Discover Financial Services now allows consumers to link Discover cards to Google's mobile wallet from Discover's website.

Square is taking a bigger bite at the small-business market by offering flat-fee processing to merchants, furthering efforts to present itself as a more full-featured option for card acceptance.

Shifting check processing work to CSI's hosted, pay-per-volume plan is expected to reduce costs and the strain on the California bank's small IT staff.

Banking policy wonks might want to disengage from their sober debate about vice presidential nominee's views on Dodd-Frank and GSEs and check out the social-media phenomenon that Ryan gags have become.

Square is giving small merchants more flexibility in how they pay for credit-card transactions, increasing competition with PayPal's rival card reader.

The supplier of point of sale devices will use TransArmor data encryption technology.

Bank employees also volunteer to install solar systems in homes in low-income communities.

A new joint venture between retailers and banks takes aim at PayPal, Google Wallet and Isis.

As more consumers try out Fiserv Inc.'s person-to-person payment service, Popmoney, the tool is evolving to become as much a social tool as a payments one.

In a plan to develop a mobile wallet of their own, a joint venture of retailers — including Wal-Mart and Target — is working with banks to provide a merchant-friendly alternative to Isis, PayPal and Google Wallet.

Army Aviation credit union formats its content to fit different devices, such as the web and smartphones.

No digital wallet can reach ubiquity if it is limited to big-box stores. Mobile solutions have to percolate down at the local coffee shop as well, where they can become part of the customer's daily grind.

IBM engineers have discovered that electrons can dance, an ability that they believe can be harnessed to change the way semiconductors operate.

In the first episode of this new video series, Steve Van Wyk, CIO of ING, on global tech leader shares his views on how private and public cloud computing is changing the U.S. banking landscape, and what CIOs should be doing about it.

Site will let customers share software add-ons they create for the Episys platform.

NCR Corp., a maker of automated teller machines and payment systems, tumbled the most in two years after saying it received allegations about business practices that might violate U.S. laws.

Ancient data silos and strict risk reporting rules are among the challenges U.S. banks need to overcome to remain relevant, SAP executives say.