Bank technology

Small ferry service lets riders pay using an Android phone, an iPhone or an iPad.

Only 24% of U.S. adults would feel safe buying something directly from a Facebook page.

Intuit is taking its GoPayment mobile card reader to Canada and is redesigning the product to make it more appealing to use.

Bank is letting customers bank on their Amazon Kindle Fire devices.

Fifth Third Bancorp has started a nationwide upgrade of its video surveillance systems from March Networks.

American Express is using scanning technology to enable merchant rewards programs to be delivered on the fly to handsets. As consumers get more familiar with scanning products while shopping, banks may be pressured to consider a barcode component to their marketing programs.

NFC-enabled smartphones from Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Research In Motion have been approved for use with Visa payWave, Visa's mobile application for payments at the point-of-sale.

Larger banks may feel threatened by the string of new, aggressively priced prepaid cards, but a group of credit unions is attempting to instead embrace this trend by modifying their ATMs to sell fee-free stored-value cards.

Regions Bank has begun offering Secure Vault online payments, saying it prefers the method over ordinary automated clearinghouse payments.

Payments processor Total Systems Services Inc. has signed a new agreement with merchant services provider Pivotal Payments Inc., the companies said Tuesday.

Intel is using an authentication system from SecureKey Technologies in its Ultrabook computers.

Rising cybersecurity threats are pushing big banks to do something that doesn't come naturally for these secrecy-steeped institutions: share information with one another.

Associated Banc-Corp has selected Datacard CardWizard issuance software for instantly issuing debit cards.

Banks are asking for more data from card networks as they attempt to comply with new regulations capping debit card interchange fees, a Capital One executive said.

Prepaid cards have struggled against the perception that they are disposable and predatory. A card designed around the teachings of personal finance guru Suze Orman is aiming to break those stigmas — and may displace long-term banking relationships in the process.

The last thing banks need is a new competitor in the mix for mobile payments, but that's exactly what they've got with PayPal testing software at Home Depot.

First Internet Bancorp is creating a new division to offer traditional commercial and industrial lending to businesses in Indiana.

U.S. Bancorp has implemented the electronic payments system Secure Vault Payments with the Nebraska Child Support Payment Center for parents to make child-support payments online.

IBM's recent signing of five new banks builds on the success of its involvement with M-PESA and reveals a burgeoning market for enterprise bank technology in Africa.

So-called direct banks have become a favored avenue out of the shadow financial system, and into the federal safety net, for household names like General Electric, American Express and Discover.