Bank technology

Visa has launched a mobile banking product with Monitise, pitting the card network against major technology vendors.

A new product being pitched to financial institutions from startup SpringCoin uses account aggregation and personal financial management tools combined with credit counseling tips to offer people real-time advice on how to improve their financial performance.

MasterCard, in an effort to improve merchant and consumer comfort with online spending, formed a partnership with Silver Tail to distribute the latter's fraud-fighting analytics to merchants.

By 2016, Javelin expects the total number of U.S. tablet owners to reach 87 million, or 40% of consumers.

The largest non-U.S. core banking software provider, Misys, is teaming with Swiss rival Temenos in a deal that should enable the combined company to offer a broad product portfolio.

Banks spend wastefully on information technology, leaving plenty of room for improvement, Oracle's Mark Hurd says.

MasterCard Inc. and software company Silver Tail Systems Inc. announced a partnership that will bring the latter's fraud-fighting analytics to MasterCard merchants.

Several billion consumers and 35 million merchants worldwide take the enormous convenience and security of branded payment cards for granted.

CoVantage Credit Union will offer its members mobile banking services from Tyfone.

The investment bank has been re-architecting its operations since its 2008 acquisition of Bear Stearns, and it's speeding up quantitative analysis with high-performance computing.

Five banks have selected Jack Henry & Associates' SilverLake core processing system in the last eight months, the vendor said Tuesday.

Year after year, Apple fans have expected the company to make a splash with an iPhone-based mobile payment system. And year after year, Apple has let them down — but a lot has been going on under the surface.

A group of bank technologists, with Microsoft's help, has created a set of guidelines for developers to help them write air-tight banking applications.

Union Square Ventures — ground floor investors in Twitter and Foursquare — is helping the payments company launch consumer facing technologies, but fintech firm Village Ventures is adding funding to the company's FiSync products, which provide integrations to banks.

Wells Fargo is ramping up its treasury management technology in an attempt to give worried international corporates a better handle on financial positions and concentrations of assets in local banks.

NCR's revenue rose 17% in the fourth quarter to $1.64 billion from a year earlier, with financial services revenue rising 16% to $908 million.

AT&T said to be supporting the Google Wallet on certain Android smartphones, in spite of being a founding member of rival payments faction Isis.

An American Banker survey finds that what bank executives most hope to get out of mobile app development projects is to deepen customer relationships.

Experian now offers a collections filtering product called FirstSweep.

BBVA Compass has launched a redesigned website, one of several technology upgrades planned for this year.