Bank technology

It's also planning new P2P and mobile wallet services in the coming months.

New research from Javelin reveals staggering growth in overall smartphone usage, but tepid growth in smartphone banking driven by an increase in those who feel the venue's unsafe for banking.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch today unveiled BofAML Express, a third-party developed low-latency market access and risk control platform for U.S. equities.

A new CyberSource/Trust Wave survey says merchants have put PCI on the back burner.

A surge in international demand and growth in account processing activity helped technology vendor FIS post a 13.4% in second-quarter revenue.

A writer was unable to stop fraudulent transfers on a Maine town's bank account.

Isis, the wireless carrier-led mobile payments venture, said Tuesday that its contractual agreements with all major card networks allow it to attract more issuers to its mobile wallet.

Fremont Bank customers in northern California are about to find out how much faster and safer their debit cards can be.

By providing T24 on the Windows Azure platform, the two vendors are enabling local banks to offer services to people who live on less than $2 per day.

As part of an "IT transformation program" announced in November 2010, State Street is shedding 850 jobs.

Isis, the mobile carrier-led mobile payments venture that initially planned to compete against incumbent payment networks, now says it has formed relationships with them.

Electronic invoicing companies Transactis and Data Impact said Tuesday that they merged operations.

Ingenico SA struck a deal with a distributor of point of sale equipment that will help the French company expand in the United States.

Citi plans to issue chip-based EMV credit cards later this year.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt prevent most U.S. banks from daring to replace their aged core systems today. But Vancouver-based North Shore Credit Union experienced few hiccups and overall happiness with a new core from Temenos.

The Australian bank, which has recently used social media stunt marketing to boost mortgage sales, is back with a new campaign in which someone will be chosen for an in-home installation of an ATM.

Aptys has upgraded a program to make it easier for banks to use the Federal Reserve's same-day settlement service for ACH payments.

The mobile wallet app will be available to Sprint Zone customers on Android.

Keith Gordon, Bank of America Corp.'s senior vice president for online and mobile channels, has joined the board of directors for the National Cyber Security Alliance, a nonprofit group focused on education around security issues.

If what I am about to discuss is news to you, it's OK, you have a good excuse. Whether it's the debt-limit debate, continued economic conditions further eroding balance sheets, or that pesky roll out of Dodd-Frank, bankers have a lot on their plates and haven't had this much fun since the S&L crisis. Or at least since the Fall of 2008 with Tarp. And it's earning season on top of that.