Bank technology

If the CEO of a company is unaware or uninterested in technology, it's incumbent upon the CIO to change that, by building relationships with the C suite, says John Beran, former CIO of Comerica. "A CIO has to become a valued partner to the businesses."

As the pace of upgrades accelerates, these are among the vendors who have been winning business.

Surprisingly for a community bank, City Bank, a $1.9 billion institution in Lubbock, Tex., offers a few wrinkles in its recently updated mobile banking app that we haven't seen elsewhere.

Citigroup announced an upgrade to its online banking application for Apple's iPad that includes what Citi says is the first such robust iPad credit card account-analysis application.

The bank's new IT testing includes a system called progressive automation, in which projects are tested much earlier in the development cycle-a move that should improve speed to market and error diagnosis.

By joining a new anti-phishing coalition, Bank of America is maintaining a leadership position it's held for several years in the battle against cyberthieves. But this is one small step and the battle is by no means over.

MasterCard is pushing merchants to upgrade their checkout systems to handle credit and debit cards that store information inside an embedded chip.

Sioux Falls, S.D. comes out at the top of The Boyd Company's ranking of major U.S. cities as data center sites. Most expensive, unsurprisingly? New York.

I recently recounted a personal story to a bank's management team that I've shared frequently over the years. I tell it to drive home the point about the importance of eliminating "clutter" that accumulates in our organizations over time. As the group laughed, I assured them that, sadly, this was a true story.

Program to help marketing managers decide where, when and how to place marketing materials within branches.

ATM maker NCR bought a minority stake in uGenius, which makes videoconferencing technology for banks.

The video-game industry is amping up its defenses after hackers penetrated numerous payments systems last year. Banks could learn from watching.

Major email providers are working with Bank of America, Fidelity Investments and PayPal on a new effort intended to reduce phishing emails.

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For a smaller banks such as the $409 million-asset The Bank of Georgia, figuring out how to use social media safely and legally isn't easy.

The prepaid card company will introduce a bank account with a traditional debit card attached to it sometime this year, chief executive Steve Streit told American Banker.

The head of consumer payments at Google Inc., who was working on the company's mobile wallet, has resigned.

Banks begin turning to Facebook and other sites to size up customers. Regulations require that they proceed with caution.

Once a leader in dial-up Internet connectivity, EarthLink Inc. is lining up banks and other businesses these days as clients for tech services like co-location and disaster-recovery.

The Monrovia, Calif., prepaid card company plans to roll out the bank account with a traditional debit card later this year, chief executive Steve Streit told American Banker.