Bank technology

The deal will let customers buy digital goods with their smartphones, through their telephone carrier billing relationship.

The most recent update to the Google mobile wallet's online pricing is the latest in a series of payments strategy twists for the world's leading search engine.

Software and services company may continue to automatically send notifications and not be considered in violation of CollegeNET's patents.

The Twitter account @NeedADebitCard calls attention to people who inexplicably decide to broadcast their debit account details in online photos.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) said that an unauthorized party gained access to business data belonging to customers of its accounts-payable service but that it has not detected a theft or wrongful use of the data.

As prepaid usage takes off, self-service kiosk partners Nexxo and Chexar are focusing on mainstream, not underbanked, consumers.

Indecomm Global Services has opened a new mortgage lending and servicing outsourcing facility in Charlotte.

Retailing giant Wal-Mart may be pulling American Express prepaid cards from its shelves due to poor sales, according to an analyst report from Jefferies & Co.

PSCU Financial Services, a service organization that provides products and services to its roughly 1,500 member credit unions, announced Monday that it will begin issuing prepaid chip cards for several of its clients this summer.

Lender Processing Services (LPS) has agreed to acquire LendingSpace, a provider of mortgage loan origination software.

Data from Javelin shows that, while people are not moving to smaller institutions in droves, there's still palpable anger and a high risk of customer flight from big banks.

New intel from the research arm of American Banker examines how the channels banks use to communicate with customers are changing.

Sharon Credit Union finds that by taking part in pilot tests for vendors, it can deploy new mobile tech faster.

Hit by thin client performance issues, Washington Trust deployed new software to streamline the storage process during a systems migration.

Grow Financial Federal Credit Union details how it uses virtual machines to bring speed to business continuity planning.

Wells Fargo, PNC, Deutsche and ING are taking steps to reduce power consumption and cost in their data centers and improve efficiency. One of the most effective practices: allowing temperatures to rise in data center facilities, something unthinkable 10 years ago.

Bankers are reluctant to embrace cloud computing based on a variety of security and regulatory fears, concerns that aren't matched by reality.

Recent high profile online banking outages at large banks beg the question: why does this keep happening and how can it be prevented? Advanced disaster recovery and social media strategies are part of the answer.

Even a mobile and web heavy financial institution can benefit from brick and mortar. USAA is using touchscreens and videoconferencing to provide advanced advice and help lightly staffed stores.

Hackers are attacking mobile banking apps more heavily. Here's what to do to fight back.