Bank technology

It's leveraging MasterCard's inControl for a product aimed specifically at small businesses, where bank technology often lags other sectors.

Can "Stop.Think.Connect" become the new "Stop, Drop and Roll"? The National Cyber Security Alliance, a public-private partnership on cyber security, says its new online-banking safety slogan is necessary to educate users.

Pacific Marine's among the credit unions that hope to ease onboarding, lending and improve the flow of documents.

Latest survey finds 47% of U.S. adults are interested in mobile payments.

Wal-Mart Stores has joined the list of national retailers that sell Square's device that turns smartphones into mobile card readers.

Weemba, a new online provider that connects borrowers with lenders, reported Monday that loan listings relating to health-care expenses made up more than half of its requests so far.

Tagattitude's TagPay uses sound waves to securely transmit payment information without the need for a near-field communication chip. The French company's sound-based system generates dynamic data that is unique to each transaction.

Bank of America announced its use of an Intuit payments product designed to alleviate a big headache for most small-business owners: payroll. By offering it, B of A is going after the lucrative small-business market, which experts say is chronically underserved by banks.

Wells Fargo & Co. is blaming a printing error for mailing numerous Florida and South Carolina customers statement details from other people.

Genome projects map the relationship between human DNA and musical preferences, so why not that of people and their cards? Many companies are mapping the so-called payments genome to make more accurate predictive marketing decisions and improve fraud detection.

SVB Financial Group's stock was up sharply Friday after the company reported third-quarter earnings that handily beat analysts' estimates.

Third-party processors like Total System Services Inc. and First Data Corp., who help run credit card systems for banks, are anticipating new business from the renewed activity in the credit card M&A market.

Mobile banking expansion initiatives at S&T Bank and America First Credit Union are mixing browser-based services and native apps, as mobile banking for "non smartphones" holds lingering sway with consumers.

A former head teller at West-Aircomm Federal Credit Union pleaded guilty to embezzling $400,000 by taking cash from three ATMs.

Equifax is expanding the availability of technology it's developed to aid mortgage investors analyzing whole loan portfolios before and after they're purchased.

Silicon Valley Bank said Thursday that it has received a key approval from a Chinese regulator to establish a joint venture bank in Shanghai.

For years, PNC's Virtual Wallet team has been working to make online banking so easy a child could use it. With its new 'S' is for Savings account, designed with Sesame Workshop, it may have met that goal.

The San Antonio financial services firm continues to add automation to its retail banking channels.

Banks are ideally positioned to use their data on consumers' purchase histories and merchant relationships to send targeted daily-deal offers to customers. Groupon's random solicitations wouldn't stand a chance.

Banks that rely on old-fashioned credit risk models or credit ratings to calculate risk-based capital reserves will suffer when Basel III becomes adopted in the U.S., Moody's head of quant credit research says.