Bank technology

The bank, which is increasingly reliant on remote access and the use of staffers' own tech devices, is deploying new data protections that allow it to avoid the expense of defending each endpoint.

BancVue of Austin, Texas is exiting the credit card business in order to devote more attention to its primary business of helping banks and credit unions attract more customers through high-yield checking and savings products.

Multi-device, multi-year agreement to develop mobile commerce solutions for smartphones and tablets; Intel Atom chip already certified for use with Visa payWave.

Banks and consultants are looking to improve money laundering detection systems using lessons adapted from their fight against consumer fraud.

eBay Inc.'s online payments arm, PayPal Inc., announced Tuesday that it is expanding its partnership with Home Depot Inc. and increasing its acceptance at all of Home Depot's stores nationwide.

In the weeks leading up to April 15, tax accounting giant H&R Block is top of mind for many people. The company came out with an iPad app for its Emerald Card customers in mid February.

The software platform deployed by Big Horn Federal Savings Bank worked well for many years. But sweeping changes in the banking market forced the bank to re-evaluate its technology platform.

Forward Financial Bank sees an opportunity to ply new electronic signatures to reduce the use of paper, pens, closing times — and erase a host of inaccuracies.

Even in banking, sometimes less is more. Bank of York in South Carolina learned that during the summer of 2011 when it streamlined its ComplianceOne loan document management system.

For a community bank that has already lost fee income from fewer overdraft charges, offering free checking is a significant challenge.

Established iPhone and Android applications are available for mobile banking, but the up-front costs can be too much for a small bank. Integration with a bank's core system is another challenge. Coastal Bank is blowing past both issues.

Crunching the numbers on real estate loans for Basel, Dodd-Frank and Consumer Credit Protection Act purposes.

South Florida banking is not for the faint of heart. The local banking community has been pummeled and the regional business market is still smarting from the real estate crisis.

Peter Setaro will be the first to admit that starting a bank off "right" with a paperless system has been no walk in the park.

Of all the community banks that are executing core upgrades, few will undergo quite as vast a transformation as East Carolina Bank, where hardware assets that in some cases date to the Reagan Era are going into the cocoon and coming out as cutting-edge automation.

At T Bank, the big new IT project is more than a new deployment — it's a cross-enterprise method of using virtualization and outsourcing to enable a bunch of smaller IT projects.

A Bank Technology News Innovator of the Year shares what's on his mobile app development drawing board.

Mobile app for corporate treasurers has processed $1 billion in transactions since August.

New tools to include "sandboxing" that prevents corporate email from being forwarded from a personal mailbox.

Banks have been loath to cede any ground to carriers and handset makers in designing mobile wallets, so it seems out of character for JPMorgan Chase and Capital One to support Isis, the carrier-controlled entrant in the mobile payments race.