Bank technology

The most popular iPad app in the Finance category of the Apple App Store in late November was Mint.com Personal Finance, which was released October 26. Mint has 6.5 million registered users, which explains the popularity and the 4,924 ratings the app had in late November. This is a "universal" app that runs on the iPad and the iPhone.

A consumer survey finds many people would use banking and financial apps on a tablet computer, but few are interested in mobile payments.

Mailing mortgage documents to borrowers and getting them back, often partly signed, was costing National Bank of Kansas City fees and productivity.

First Midwest Bank finds automated calls to customers are effective at thwarting funds transfer fraud.

Bank of York didn't really need a new loan document management system, it just needed to use the one it had more efficiently.

CTO Tony Kerrison is moving the bank's IT infrastructure to the cloud, and he'd like you to join him.

The Top 10 Tech Companies to Watch is a list of the ten vendors, startups and established companies alike, that have technology that is innovative, that meets a current need for banks and their customers, and that comes with a likely-to-succeed business model.

Beset by security and regulatory burdens, financial institutions want to make these two heads one by mapping fast-changing risk and compliance mandates to their information technology networks so that updates securing the integrity of systems and workstations can happen more rapidly and more reliably. However, the innovation that accomplishes this is just starting to come out of the lab.

Large banks that have invested heavily in branding for their current Web addresses are not eager to switch to a .bank URL, but small banks may find there's some appeal.

The concept of the data center fabric is finally coming to fruition as vendors make their products closer to compatible.

Talk of banks not innovating quickly enough is misplaced - many banks depend on their core provider to make the first move.

Security, predictive analytics, cloud and mobile payment providers are among our list of the most intriguing vendors for the banking industry in 2012.

Five Questions with David Wallace, group manager of merchant compliance, Chase Paymentech.

Confusion and lack of a clear definition are still the enemy of cloud computing. Many products are lumped under the label cloud computing that aren't – this is sometimes called "cloudwashing."

McAfee's making major inroads in governance, risk and compliance — a major area of focus for financial institutions in the near future.

The firm is developing a predictive IT analytics platform for end-to-end application performance management in the cloud and takes steps to prevent IT outages.

Google has the technology and the partnerships to make its Google Wallet the most popular mobile payment platform in the U.S.

The company combines transaction marketing with daily deal couponing and online banking to help banks provide a new service to customers.

This huge and fast-growing market is in dire need of convenient and affordable options. m-Via has lined up a strong set of merchant partners that includes MasterCard and 7-Eleven and its model, which makes transactions free to users, should be appealing to this population.

The technology tests the impact of new initiatives, providing a view of potential ROI beforehand.