Bank technology

Mobibucks Corp., the company behind a mobile marketing and payment service, said its system can now be used by diners at Field of Greens and Voodoo BBQ and Grill to receive discounts and make payments.

Credit unions have increasingly used a marketing campaign that combines social media with contests to find young, media-savvy spokespeople. Can banks mimic their success?

Former Goldman programmer sentenced for stealing code; willingness to interact with strangers of opposite sex a threat to social networks; arrests made in global card scam.

Zala, a startup person-to-person payments network, is teaming with Monster Offers, a Groupon-like "daily deals" service, to tie the use of coupons to a customer's prepaid card.

Vivotech Inc. has rolled out a software suite called Vivonfc to manage payment systems that use near-field communication chips.

MoneyGram International said it has hired Aaron Henry as associate general counsel, global regulatory and chief privacy officer and senior vice president.

Allied First Bancorp Inc. of Oswego, Ill., is using technology from VSoft Corp. for remote deposit capture services.

Littlewoods Europe's addition of Neteller's e-wallet as an accepted payment method will help protect customers against card-not-present fraud because they will not have to enter financial or personal information when making an online purchase, the U.K. online retailer said.

In offering to market third-party software to its customers, Fifth Third Processing Solutions LLC is going beyond what many payment companies do when they open their platform to developers.

Visa plans to unveil an improved fraud detection system Monday for CyberSource customers that it says will cast a wider net than its earlier technology.

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FreeScore LLC now offers an iPhone app that consumers can use to receive their credit scores and calculate mortgage rates.

Many bankers expect Apple Inc. to help bring mobile payments into the mainstream by developing its own system for the iPhone. But the consumer electronics company could have the same effect with its advertising.

A severe security breach at EMC Corp.'s RSA Security may threaten the thousands of banks that use its technology.

A severe security breach at EMC Corp.'s RSA Security may threaten the thousands of banks that use its technology.

EMC Corp.'s RSA security division said it has experienced "an extremely sophisticated cyber attack" on its SecurID products, used to protect access to private data.

Zong Inc. said Thursday that its mobile carrier billing service is now available for video game consoles, interactive television services, mobile websites and other channels.

Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Japan's third-largest bank by assets, is experiencing computer problems that are affecting its automated teller machine network as consumers are frequently withdrawing cash in the aftermath of last week's earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear power plant problems, according to various reports.

With project management activities consuming time and money and a high turnover rate among project managers, it's little wonder that banks are ready for a better model.

Intuit's latest online banking software eliminates the integration issues of its 2008 design, finally delivering what the company says is a seamless experience.