Bank technology

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.

Amsterdam bank is shifting bricks and mortar and hardware deployment work to third parties, in the hopes of a more flexible framework and pay-as-you-go consumption of IT services.

Fraudsters are hitting bank customers with phone calls, text messages and email, trying to coax card account information from them.

Bad times are driving a large majority of banks to rethink their operating models, a KPMG survey says. Wealth management and technology are priorities, branches may have to be turned into marketing stores, and M&A is still back burner.

The partnership will open up hundreds of potential new clients to Geezeo's white label PFM services.

Apple has over 300 retail stores, but it relies heavily on mobile devices — not just cash registers — to handle payments in its aisles. Intuit's latest update to QuickBooks Point of Sale allows its small-merchant clients to duplicate Apple's model.