Bank technology

A week after opening its first full-service branch in the United Kingdom, Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, Calif., has committed to lend as much as $100 million to Irish companies over the next five years.

Deal intended to help Zipmark's electronic check app work at 75,000 online merchants.

Americans are dying a death of a thousand cuts when it comes to spending, says Phil Fremont-Smith, CEO of ImpulseSave.

Square, facing increasing competition from bigger rivals, is adding features to its small plastic card reader such as enabling merchants automatically deliver discounts at the point of sale.

Business process outsourcing provider and training provider partner to cross-sell one another's services.

Consumers may not show banks the same type of love showered on companies like Apple, but financial services companies can still use social media to promote their brands and connect to loyal customers, according to a new study.

Risk management is fundamentally a social science built on market data that sometimes misbehaves. The models are fed by crucial assumptions about the likelihood of different market outcomes.

The Canadian credit union faces lots of competitors, so it's turning to a mix of new CRM, business intelligence, data analysis and success scorecards to expand relationships with its members.

The investment bank, which specializes in research, says it has begun covering the online auction and shopping company because of its ecommerce unit, PayPal.

Six bankers joining the international payment communication network's board.

A toolkit that modifies popular programs SpyEye and Zeus has the ability to empty a victim's bank account automatically.

Bankers, regulators and consumer advocates debate the best ways to serve low-income and underbanked consumers.

Deutsche Bank and National Australia Bank are quickly building out internal clouds, but are only dipping their toes in public cloud services.

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High fees and bad marketing of prepaid cards have made them unattractive to many potential customers, according to Stewart Stockdale, Western Union's head of global consumer services.

Centris Federal Credit Union is deploying new self-service kiosks that offer a range of financial services to the underbanked, helping the credit union forge broader financial relationships with underserved consumers.

Mortgage lender using new mortgage origination system.

After seeing record growth in remittances last year, Wells Fargo (WFC) has doubled its remittance network payout locations in India through an agreement with HDFC Bank.

Order and portfolio management and portfolio performance measurement tools created for Swiss private banks are being sold in the U.S.