Bank technology

The agency’s update of its 2005 digital banking recommendations is getting poor reviews. Critics claim it’s still widely open to interpretation and doesn’t plug all of the security holes

To make redeeming points easier for cardholders, Chase has adapted its core processing system to directly accept Amazon reward points.

The new technology positions the eBay unit to move deeper into mobile payments and places pressure on other competitors in the space like clearXchange

When Matt Weidler made the long walk from his desk to the automated teller machine and realized he had forgotten his ATM card yet again, he decided the best thing to do was to reinvent the ATM.

Collective Point of Sale Solutions Ltd., a Toronto merchant-services provider, is deploying Hypercom Corp. point of sale terminals to split and transmit EMV credit and debit card transactions to the least costly processors, the companies announced Tuesday.

Germany's Federal Office for Information Security warned last week about a vulnerability in the way Apple's iOS devices such as the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch deal with PDF files.

The growth of mobile and Web financial services has providers of interactive voice response scrambling for new technology in an attempt to infuse usability into the traditional contact center.

PayPal is pushing harder in mobile payments by promising near-field communication support for Android handsets.

The march of mobile banking has moved more slowly in the U.K. than in other countries, but NatWest and RBS have moved more quickly than others.

The new technology positions the eBay unit to move deeper into mobile payments and places pressure on other competitors in the space like clearXchange.

A new white paper dissects the many risks inherent in communicating with customers via social media, and offers tips.

The Deerfield, Ill., retailer will use SunGard's AvantGard Treasury program to help it eliminate manual processes and improve access to its financial data.

Job seekers received an unexpected and unwelcome response from The Washington Post last week, when the paper alerted users of its job ad site that it had suffered a data breach.

Those ubiquitous Web ads promising a flatter stomach if you obey "one weird old tip" are actually scams to get consumers' credit card details, the Federal Trade Commission says.

Morgan Stanley sent two letters to clients explaining that their names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers had been compromised.

Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the U.S. military and federal agencies, is the apparent victim of a hacking incident, The New York Times reported Monday.