Bank technology

A BankThink post on the snail’s pace of payments sparks a discussion of how red tape stops financial institutions from leveraging social media. Have banks hit a social media stalemate?

U.S. Bank has bought a type of corporate credit card network for truckers from prepaid company TransCard.

Doug Bergeron, CEO of VeriFone, scoffs at the idea that rival Square is of similar valuation. But industry observers see Square's impact on payments only growing.

Silver Tail's behavioral analysis technology investigates unusual behavior to find fraud.

The Treasury Department on Tuesday said that employees of Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB) would help it select the best ideas for new mobile applications.

Michael Carvin went to buy a home a couple of years ago and wound up creating software (and a company around it) that helps people understand how much house they can afford.

The new tool, Equifax says, monitors identities across dozens of industries and thousands of banks.

Thought leadership group will study systemic dangers to the global financial markets.

The software is aimed at providing international banks with an aggregated view of customer transactions and other data.

BBVA Compass and Citi are among the banks starting to use sentiment analysis and artificial intelligence to determine how people really feel about them.

The giant retailer has said it will oppose a swipe-fee settlement with Visa and MasterCard that was proposed earlier this month.

As cloud-based document storage services like Dropbox gain popularity, the risk increases that sensitive or confidential information will fall into the wrong hands. A new study quantifies this danger.

As weather and the economy pummel the agricultural industry, agricultural lenders such as Farm Credit Services of Mid-America are bolstering tech to manage rate and payment risks.

Some 95% of bankers say the potential for SME business is at least equal to that of any other opportunity.

Head of strategic planning says on Quora that selling to PayPal would be like 'giving up.'

Juniper Research sees an almost eightfold increase in near-field communications usage over the next five years.

New chip-and-PIN cards targeted at customers who travel to countries where magnetic stripe cards are not accepted.

BBVA Compass and Citi are among the banks starting to use sentiment analysis technology and artificial intelligence to determine how people really feel about them.

Bank of America (BAC) reduced its automated teller network almost 9 percent this year by yanking most of the devices deployed at U.S. gas stations and malls.

The 2008 crisis bruised nonfinancial companies that rely on the markets to raise money and hedge risk. Take it from consumer goods makers — global standards like LEI will make doing business easier, in good times and bad.