Bank technology

After nearly 10 months of pressure from its largest shareholder, data and technology vendor CoreLogic will implement a series of changes to its board of directors, including the addition of three independent directors and the announced resignation of board chairman D. Van Skilling.

Eighty-two thousand of PNC's more than one million Virtual Wallet account customers participate in a blog that can be accessed only from within an online banking session, providing the bank with valuable and focused feedback.

Banks are missing out on the channel's potential, some top financial execs said at this year's mobile banking summit.

A new app stores loyalty cards, concert tickets and boarding passes on an iPad or iPhone, and redeems them with bar codes displayed on the screen. Could Starbucks be next?

Chexar Networks has agreed to acquire Clear Payments of Nashville, Tenn.

NCR has devised a way for people to use smartphones to set up withdrawals from automated teller machines by using an iPhone or Android app.

Gamer and futurist Jane McGonigal says that by building gaming techniques into mobile banking and commerce, banks could help relieve their customers' financial anxieties and help them reach financial goals.

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Tracey Weber (managing director, internet and mobile, Citi), Prashant Agarwal (vice president of business design at Fjord) and Rob Berini (a director with Deloitte Consulting) describe some of the capabilities of tablets that could be better used by banks in their dealings with customers.

Former head of operations at Fannie Mae to fill a new role at the bank.

ATM providers are testing the way customers use video-enabled ATMs and kiosks to determine where and how they make the most sense.

Online banking's many features may go overlooked by bankers when a unified strategy is called for, IDC report and industry observers say.

I urge travelers to San Francisco to take a tour and visit some of the many startups, disruptors and success stories in the area.

Sprint is planning its own mobile wallet that may compete with the one it offers through Google, according to a news report.

FINRA and the SEC are requiring banks to store web pages relevant to certain customer interactions. Software companies like Smarsh are working on solutions to draw banks out of their printing and PDFing habits.

Berg Insight expects 53% of merchants to be able to accept smartphone payments by 2017.

The online alternative lender has also received a $15 million equity investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

As bank regulators strive to prevent robo-signing and faulty foreclosures in the mortgage industry (somewhat after the fact, some would argue), they're looking at the way banks manage third-party document management providers.

Peter Kight, who founded CheckFree in the 1980s, has a vision for the future, but it's up to the banks if they want to be there.

Bank is offering small business clients remote deposit capture software and a Panini desktop check scanner to make deposits from their offices.