Bank technology

Company provides middleware services that enable telephony, presence awareness and videoconferencing to be delivered as a service.

The software is intended to help geographically dispersed and siloed developers work together on projects.

Barclays unveiled a video featuring David Hasselhoff earlier this month, as the pop-culture icon cheered on a customer shopping with the bank's new U.K. PayTag device.

Citigroup's Tracey Weber is blazing a trail in financial services over smartphones and tablets; customers are following.

Recently I attended a presentation by Kevin Mitnick, a well-known computer hacker turned security expert. His live demonstration showed both the ease and effectiveness of current hacking techniques. It was unnerving to witness the relatively simple, yet extremely dangerous techniques for stealing sensitive data. It gave me a greater appreciation for our information security team and the difficulties they face on a daily basis. They understand that one error or lapse in attentiveness — no matter how seemingly minor — can be the downfall of the entire company.

The ranks of banks turning to HTML5 for their mobile offerings, thus creating pages once that run on multiple devices, continues to grow. Mobile wallet application development platform provider ZooZ hopes to take advantage of this trend.

Nonbank mobile wallets pose a looming threat to banks, Carlisle & Gallagher research finds.

Illinois Rep. Donald Manzullo used a congressional hearing Friday on cyber-security to share some of his own, largely negative experiences with computers.

Banking, trading and risk management software all under one roof.

The ABA and Financial Services Roundtable seek to own .bank and .insurance.

The UK risk firm is looking for a U.S. tech infrastructure partner to spread its “Cubes in the Cloud” service in the States, hoping banks will yield to expanding data storage and compliance needs and outsource a larger chunk of risk management

Weber, who is managing director of internet and mobile at Citi and BTN’s Mobile Banker of the Year, shares the decision process she goes through in determining which new mobile devices to support with banking apps.

Bank of Colorado allows customers to fill out initial forms online, freeing up loan officers for other tasks such as selling.

BB&T is charging for mobile remote deposit capture.

Citi's Tracey Weber is one of a number of top execs who are changing the game when it comes to mobile banking.

An almost overwhelming amount of customer data can now be mined and used to improve marketing and product design efforts. But not all data needs to be stored and analyzed.

New channels and data analysis are making it easier for financial institutions to reach people with thin credit histories.

Videoconferencing and ATM ID palm readers will soon be de rigueur at bank branches, according to experts at a recent event.

Lots of mobile wallet products are hitting the market, but they'll only go as far as their usability takes them.

New types of data analytics can improve credit risk, but only if banks can deploy the technology quickly. A lot of tech firms say that's no problem.