Bank technology

The online bank has (begrudgingly) started offering customers paper checks. Like credit cards, its checkbooks must be activated before using.

PNC plans to overhaul technology and inject more fee-generating products once it completes its acquisition, RBC Bank exec Reggie Davis says in an interview.

The bank hopes to preserve IT jobs and reap long-term cost savings through a targeted deal signed recently with IBM.

Capital One's planning to add an Android app to its iPhone and mobile offerings as part of an expanding digital strategy that also includes mobile payments.

Computer Services Inc.'s multi-million dollar cash deal for Heit, a managed services provider, will expand the core banking vendor's geographic reach and allow it to cross-sell to a wider group of community banks.

Instead of dipping its toe into the mobile-payments pool, Heartland Payment Systems Inc. intends to make a splash with an application and a card reader that attaches to a smart phone like Square's or VeriFone's payWare Mobile readers.

Even though banks are being required by new rules to put stronger security in place for online banking, two thirds of bankers think they will never be able to get cyber crime under control, according to a Fundtech survey.

The branch will be mainly a marketing and new account indoctrination center. Smartphones will eliminate most face-to-face transactions, as well as paper checks, currency and cards – not to mention the costs associated with those media.

Visa has introduced a series of incentives to spur the U.S. to adopt chip cards – a change once considered as likely as the country switching to the metric system.

University Federal Credit Union plans to open several branches that take design cues from airports, including new tablet-like ATMs that look like the check-in kiosks at airline terminals.

A new system called DTS covers the entire lifecycle of deposits, and is a new lure for treasury management clients.

One man has shared his Starbucks prepaid card with the world, allowing anyone to spend and reload it using a feature of the card that was once called a security flaw.

Visa Inc. plans to accelerate the U.S. migration to EMV contact and contactless chip technology, the card brand announced Aug. 9.

Banks' mobile banking apps too often store users' passwords and other sensitive data on their devices. Yet banks fared better than other industries in the viaForensics audit released today.

Olof Schybergson, founder and CEO of design firm Fjord, which has created iPad apps for Citi, BBVA and other banks, shares some common mistakes made and best practices for bank app designers and developers who may be new to the iPad format.

Banks are beginning to customize overdraft limits based on individual customer's ability to pay.

PE firm Gores Group unveils its payments reader strategy for Hypercom's U.S. payments terminal business

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Banks face a big challenge in performing the high degree of analysis required under new security rules for payments initiated online. National Penn Bancshares claims to have had significant success fighting fraud using technology and human interaction.

The bill-payment software vendor is dealing with declines in part of its banking segment. But it is seeing a resurgence in ecommerce activity and walk-up bill payments.