Banking

Jeff Casey, one of BTN's Mobile Banker of the Year honorable mentions, has found letting people pay bills by snapping photos of them with their smartphones is a hit among customers.

Mobile Banker of the Year honorees this year all have similar goals for their mobile banking apps: simplicity and ease of use.

We heard it again and again from Charaka Kithulegoda and other bankers honored in our Mobile Banker of the Year package this year: simplicity and ease of use are the keys to sound mobile banking app design.

Charaka Kithulegoda, ING Direct Canada's chief information officer and an avid runner, has taken cues from a Nike training tool to help develop his branchless bank's approach to mobile.

One of BTN's seven honorable mentions for Mobile Banker of the Year, U.S. Bank's Niti Badarinath doesn't mind being ahead of the curve on new mobile app features — like offering support for Kindle and using geolocation to combat fraud.

How to innovate when you're in a large, matrixed institution? "Hackathons" are part of the answer for Hari Gopalkrishnan, who leads retail mobile app development at Bank of America and is one of BTN's honorable mentions for Mobile Banker of the Year.

Andres Wolberg-Stok, one of BTN's Mobile Banker of the Year honorable mentions, is creating one code base from which Citi can deliver mobile apps to three dozen consumer markets around the world.

The U.S. and China will hold high-level talks on how to set guidelines for conduct in cyberspace, The New York Times is reporting.

The legal fight over credit card swipe fees has been going on for years, but a resolution nears even as opponents' voices get louder. Here are some of the most noteworthy events in the ongoing courtroom case.

Enrollment is up at the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking as banks return to financial health and executives once again invest in their employees' development.

Kids master fundamentals of banking at Montecito Bank's financial literacy summer program, Fun in the Sun.

Fraud is a growing problem with mobile devices, but users still want convenience.

Though many servicers will be exempt from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's upcoming exams, its new rules on how to handle troubled homeowners will impact them all.

Nearly 20 years ago, Chip Mahan's early Internet venture with Security First Network Bank led to the birth of S1 Corp., one of the boom times' most-hyped online-banking technology providers. Today, he's behind a startup small-business lender with another technology offshoot in mind: loan underwriting in the cloud.

Small-business owners who invite their children into the experience, even in small ways, can impart important lessons that stick for life.

Small-business finance firm Kabbage turns to social media metrics to size up funding applicants.

Small-business customer want advice they can trust. KeyBank has a strategy for delivering it.

Small-business loan volume is on the rise at big banks.

Karen Mills, the outgoing head of the Small Business Administration, gets high marks from bankers for cutting red tape, revamping little-used programs, improving outreach, and, most important, convincing lawmakers to raise caps so that banks could make larger loans.

WASHINGTON — Wisconsin suffered its first bank failure in over two years late Friday as regulators closed a small institution in Kenosha and sold off most of its operations.