Bank technology

Corporate Insight has identified opportunities for banks to run marketing and reward programs on the social media site.

The alternative lender's new decisioning engine runs multiple models to bring its short-term loans to a larger market. It's also planning to operate in more states, a tough task for online lenders looking to navigate varied state laws.

An online survey conducted by Infosys finds banks have much room for improvement in the speed and reliability of their mobile banking offerings.

Trying to keep up with developments in mobile financial services can be a dizzying prospect. Banks are fearful of being left in the dust, yet they are hesitant to make a big bet on mobile that could possibly distinguish them from the rest of the field but could just as easily fail.

Twitter and Facebook audiences are tough nuts to crack, but for bankers grappling with social media the toughest challenge of all can be found at YouTube.

Fidelity National Information Services reported first-quarter profit of $95.8 million, down less than 1% from a year earlier, as corporate expenses climbed.

Bank has selected Viewpointe’s OnPointe software to automatically preserve customer interactions around securities transactions.

Western Union plans to offer prepaid card rewards to boost the use of its money transmitter services.

IT exec Saul van Beurden discusses how the bank is adhering to emerging service oriented architecture standards, a move it hopes will also help it deploy new products quickly.

The social network just wants to know everything about the consumer. Payments happen to be the best way for people to show they really "like" a product.

Everis to use Numerix tools for Monte Carlo simulations, cross-asset analytics and other risk-related tasks.

New Brussels-based organization will fund and publish research from academics and senior industry professionals.

Diebold reported a first-quarter profit of $45.2 million, compared with earnings of $2.5 million a year earlier, due to growth in its North America and Asia-Pacific businesses.

Twitter and Facebook audiences are tough nuts to crack, but the social media channel posing the biggest challenge to banks may be YouTube.

Aided by strong client transaction growth, Total System Services reported that its first-quarter earnings rose more than 15%, to $56.4 million, from a year earlier.

The tech firm's personal financial management tools and Central 1's digital banking products will be made available to more than 300 financial services providers in Canada.

As they compete with Google and other hot tech companies for talented software engineers, banks are increasingly working with universities to help train prospective employees.

Anomaly detection intended to protect mobile banking channel.

Bank's service lets corporate treasurers deposit checks by iPhone.

Milton Santiago, Bank of America's global ecommerce executive, discusses the bank's corporate client advisory board, its use of HTML5 and the odd notion of needing to tone down security for mobile devices.