Bank technology

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.

American Banker readers share their views on the most pressing banking topics of the week. As excerpted from the Comments sections of AmericanBanker.com articles.

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.

The Waterloo, Iowa credit union is launching a funds transfer system that, for now, will pump money into the alternative payment company Dwolla's platform.

Adding merchant discounts or rewards that banks can offer their customers.

The Birmingham bank is adding to its new line of financial services for low-income and other underbanked customers.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has introduced an iPad application for its corporate treasury clients using the online payment and invoicing system, Paymode-X.

Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) in Columbus, Ohio, announced Thursday that electronics payment pioneer Peter J. Kight has joined its board of directors.

About 35 million Americans are considered underbanked. According to a Javelin study, this group has higher income and potential interest in traditional banking than you might think.

Software replaces paper documents with tablets.

American Express, Barclays among the financial institutions who have applied for their own top-level domain names.

Although they can’t see customers’ held-away investments, three quarters of financial advisors give advice about these assets anyway.

The institution is going beyond the basic "we have mobile banking" message to touting specific features such as bill pay.