Bank technology

New branding, new offerings and updated website to give 47-year-old company a lift.

Community Choice Credit Union will use Jack Henry's Biz 2.0 to extend online bill payment services to small-business customers.

Fewer than 5% of Americans have used their smart phone to pay for anything, survey finds.

The bank riffed off its iPad app to create an app for the Amazon tablet alternative. Citi also rolled out mobile check deposit and person-to-person payments for smartphones today.

There are several factors that Bank of America's managers must have known when they recently started testing a new fee schedule for consumers.

Core banking provider aims to improve security for its software.

The smartphone manufacturer is positioned to embed near-field communication into future iPhones and develop its own mobile wallet that bypasses the telecoms and offers spend controls for family or business use.

Visa Europe plans to acquire a 15% minority stake in mobile retail payments provider Mobile Money Network Ltd., the European payment system provider announced March 7.

Person-to-person payments provider Dwolla Corp. responded late Tuesday to a lawsuit filed by the Bitcoin exchange TradeHill, saying allegations that it put TradeHill out of business were "specious" and that the suit is little more than an attempt to generate publicity.

As some large retailers work on their own mobile payment initiative, they'll still be interested in other programs such as Google Wallet and Isis.

Bank outsourcing ATMs to focus on other customer-facing projects.

The partnership will help the credit union technology cooperative repair, secure and upgrade thousands of ATMs.

American Express cardholders will be invited to sync their card accounts with their Twitter accounts, providing an avenue for the customer to easily consume coupons and for American Express to easily learn much more about its customers.

The suit, which revolves around chargebacks, underscores one of the challenges facing emerging payments companies: the lack of defined mechanisms for settling disputed charges.

A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin last week returned a unanimous verdict finding Blackhawk Network liable for infringing two InComm patent claims.

They won’t go cold turkey. Surprisingly, the more purchases consumers pay for with debit, the more cash they withdraw. Use ATM screens to get the word out about debit’s benefits.

Veritec is the latest company to offer a debit card with an "off" switch. It gives cardholders the ability to switch off the account's transaction functions from a Web browser or smartphone.

The complexities of enabling U.S. merchants to accept contactless smart cards and various mobile-payment technologies represent a significant revenue opportunity for VeriFone, the company says.

In its second annual Mobile Banking Scorecard, Keynote Systems has dubbed Chase Bank the large bank with the best overall mobile user experience, best functionality, and best ease of use.

American Airlines Federal Credit Union announced Tuesday that it has chosen the Episys core processing system of Jack Henry & Associates.