Banking

Believe.in, a U.K. company that provides technology for accepting donations online, has a no-fee structure that allows charities to receive donations using technology from Stripe.

The nation's largest mutual has been an early adopter, using the Internet to market and originate small-business loans.

Citi Commercial Cards had introduced CitiManager Mobile, a smartphone-optimized version of CitiManager, the institution's desktop portal for corporate cardholders.

Citigroup has settled a lawsuit that charged the company with deceiving institutional investors about its exposure to subprime loans in the lead-up to the mortgage meltdown.

Delinquencies on commercial mortgages that back securities inched up in May as resolutions fell.

American Banker Magazine's recent article on the Small Business Administration's Karen Mills was quite a love-fest. Here's the other side of the story that would be good for the public to hear.

The financial software company Misys has introduced a new system to aid banks in managing risk.

Hewlett-Packard announced Monday that Spanish banking company NCG has chosen HP's Fortify service to assess the security of its software.

Digital security company nProtect has introduced software that aims to prevent online banking fraud by detecting anomalous activity.

The United States needs a new, 21st-century model for identifying, monitoring and reporting risk at banks. The model must be forward-looking, not backward-looking as the Camels ratings are.

Nomura Securities has begun using a mobile application for asset managers from Nomura Research Institute.

Tech startups are gunning to compete with banks by providing financial services to low-income and other underserved customers. Many of the offerings provide me-too services with limited appeal, however, rather than attractive innovations.

General Electric reached a settlement with the New York Attorney General's office resolving an investigation into a GE health-care credit card that charged interest rates as high as 27%.

Suffolk Bancorp in Riverhead, N.Y., has been released from a written agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Farmers National Banc in Canfield, Ohio is buying an employee-benefits consultant.

AmericanWest Bank in Spokane, Wash., has agreed to buy eight southern California branches from First PacTrust Bancorp in Irvine, Calif.

Meritrust CU plans to build a vault-style safe room in its newest branch in Manhattan, Kan,. to protect against tornadoes like the one that struck Moore, Okla.

Making City Bank Texas, a community bank based in Lubbock, an early adopter of mobile banking features such as mobile photo bill pay and debit card management won Jim Simpson an honorable mention for BTN's Mobile Banker of the Year.

Mathieu Krogstad, one of BTN's Mobile Banker of the Year honorable mentions, has pushed several innovations through at Bank of the West in his 18 months as vice president of mobile banking and payments.

NewDominion is the rare community bank that invests in its own apps for small business clients. Behind that effort stands Chris Block, one of BTN's Mobile Banker of the Year honorees.