Bank technology

Kyle McDonald was investigated after posting to his blog photos taken by the built-in webcams in the demo machines on display at an Apple Inc. retail store in New York, according to a July 8 story on Business Insider.

NCR Corp. has struck a deal that will make it less reliant on the banking clients that buy its automated teller machines, video teller machines and other branch equipment.

New services enhance systems integration and VOIP to enable links to transaction platforms, databases and CRM.

Former Greater Bay Bancorp executive charged with making IT more efficient and coming up with a single, "customer-friendly" platform.

DataMotion Inc., a provider of email encryption services, found in a recent survey conducted by Osterman Research Inc. that nearly 80% of potential community bank customers want to communicate with their banks using secure email, while only about 40% can do so currently.

Cashiers now may activate entire packs of prepaid cards at once instead of swiping each card individually, through a new service First Data Corp. is rolling out.

Consumers' rising revolving credit may mean the pullback in consumer lending is easing, but an analyst warns against drawing too many conclusions from the recent data.

NCR, a maker of automated teller machines, self-service kiosks and other financial technology, is buying hospitality software developer Radiant Systems for $1.2 billion.

In the latest phase of an effort to hire leaders from the retail world (including Tracey Weber from Travelocity and Frank Eliason from Comcast), Citigroup Inc. has hired Omar Khan, chief technology officer at Samsung Mobile, to head mobile initiatives on a global basis. Khan is said to have led Samsung's moves into the Android space.

CoVantage Credit Union is working with the software vendor Tyfone Inc. to make its customers' wallets more mobile.

Guardian Analytics Inc. said it will launch an outsourced fraud prevention service Wednesday that will help financial institutions meet new Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council guidelines.

U.S. Bancorp has increased its mobile banking options for prepaid card customers.

With a 98% retention rate, USAA Federal Savings Bank seems to have little room to improve customer service. But it's spent the past two years and millions of dollars overhauling systems to do just that.

Regions Bank in Birmingham, Ala., is teaming up with person-to-person payments provider ZashPay to let its customers transfer payments to family members, friends and other individuals without ever having to write a check.

With a 98% retention rate, USAA Federal Savings Bank seems to have little room to improve customer service. But it's spent the past two years and millions of dollars overhauling systems to do just that.

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The credit union is enabling its 14,000 members to access a document automation solution called TotaleAtlasWeb through its home banking portal, which is provided by PM Systems Corp.

Many consumers don't know what near-field communication is, but the services the technology enables are becoming quite popular. That puts an onus on mobile payments projects that use NFC to move beyond disputes over revenue and other issues.

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WikiLeaks supporters briefly regained access to Visa's payment gateway in a series of rapid midweek developments, but by Friday the gateway closed again.