Bank technology

Online and mobile payments company eWise said on Tuesday that it had appointed Alexandre Gonthier as chief executive in addition to making changes to its board.

USA Technologies reported on Tuesday that it had narrowed its first-quarter loss to $78,954 from a net loss of $1.9 million a year earlier due to increased license and transaction-fee revenue.

M&T Bank has developed an anti-skimming device, appropriately called the Blocker, to prevent card theft at its ATMs by making fraudsters' tampering blatantly obvious.

Bank of America is the second major issuer to buck a recent trend by using a PIN when it offers U.S. commercial customers cards that incorporate the EMV chip-card standard that is prevalent in Europe.

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says Square "is an incredible technology that inspires and empowers everyone to be an entrepreneur."

Chase Paymentech's David Wallace discusses the ins and outs of new innovations designed to help reduce the scope of PCI audits, boost security and avoid data rashes.

American Express Co. announced on Tuesday that it will invest $100 million in early-stage digital commerce startups, as the company steps up its efforts to court younger, tech savvy consumers to widen its customer base.

Congressional Federal Credit Union has deployed software to ease the process of onboarding disgruntled bank customers.

Research finds consumers increasingly fond of their ATMs, yet resistant to foreign ATM fees.

The Defense Department is offering a year of credit monitoring to the nearly 5 million people affected by a data breach in September.

Banking and payments executives try desperately to figure out where their debit card strategies all went wrong – and what, if anything, they can do next – at an industry conference.

Promontory Interfinancial Network LLC will integrate its Insured Cash Sweep and Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service with Fiserv Inc.'s Premier bank platform.

PayPal Inc., a pioneer in alternative online payments, is now seeking to stake a new claim in the burgeoning and increasingly congested mobile payments space — and what sets it apart may be a three-year-old acquisition.

A glimpse of what may represent the future of payments has arrived, but thus far only in certain geographic areas. With the Card Case smartphone application from Square Inc., consumers pay simply by stating their names at the point of sale.

The mobile wallet providers Google Inc. and Isis continue to position their products as more than just payments vehicles to replace plastic cards.

AmeriFirst is turning to technology to bring servicing operations in-house while achieving the same cost efficiencies that traditionally have been achieved via subservicing arrangements.

Executives at a payments industry conference took some jabs at the regulations slashing their long-cherished debit card interchange fees.

Jeff Dennes, chief digital officer at Huntington, says the bank will quickly evolve its new iPad app, which is the first from a regional bank in the App Store.

Gemalto is offering a new product that secures online banking transactions using a combination of a smart card, secure browser and Adobe reader technology.

MasterCard is short on details for plans to beef up share in the debit card space on its third-quarter earnings call with analysts. The network posted strong earnings and revenue gains despite a sluggish economy.