Banking

Global Payments will begin offering merchants currency conversion services at their point of sale terminals through an integration with Planet Payment.

Roughly two months after BBVA Compass launched its branchless bank account for basketball fans, the bank has about 10,000 NBA Banking customers, says BBVA's chief marketing officer John Wessman.

Datacard Group is offering a new CD820 instant card issuance system which can support contact and contactless EMV-chip cards.

Mobile device fraud is climbing with consumer adoption of the technology, according to a joint study released by payments technology company Jumio and Harris Interactive.

A breakdown of M&A announcements in the financial services industry for the week ended April 20.

RDM Corporation, a provider of remote deposit capture technology, has reached an agreement with U.S. Dataworks such that the latter will now resell its solution.

NCR has added a customer for its video banking service. The global technology company said Monday that Coastal Community Credit Union on Vancouver Island, British Columbia has installed NCR's APTRA Interactive Teller at a recently-opened branch in Duncan, a city on the southern part of the island.

A global survey Cisco released Monday offers clues to the types of technology consumers want to use to interact with their banks.

ACI Worldwide has launched the ACI Universal Payments Platform, throwing its hat into a busy ring of companies building technology to allow financial institutions, processors and retailers to keep up with the nimble startups and other factors that are reshaping the payments industry.

The $133 million-asset Jefferson Bancorp said Monday that it had acquired 10 branches from Carrollton that will operate under the Bay Bank name. The company has $480 million in assets and 22 branches around Baltimore.

The law firm Proskauer has lured a veteran lawyer/investment banker from UBS.

Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu missed its first-quarter earnings estimates as interest income fell.

The introduction of more private, risk-bearing capital to housing finance should expand homeownership possibilities.

The C-1 electric car is an inventive vehicle, built by a company with an inventive marketing strategy and an inventive way of accepting payments.

When PayPal begins distributing the EMV-chip card version of its PayPal Here mobile card reader in the U.K. this year, it will follow a pattern the eBay unit established in the U.S. of targeting a narrower market than its rivals do.

WICHITA, Kan. – A federal judge has set a hearing for April 29, when he will consider whether to delay as many as eight of NCUA’s suits claiming recompense from Wall Street banks over the corporate credit union debacle and whether the cases should be consolidated.

Banks have to reconsider how their customers are using mobile technology, branches and ATMs, and successful companies will create an "integrated multichannel experience," says Bank of the West's Andy Harmening, a senior executive vice president and regional banking group head. He spoke to American Banker at the annual Best Practices in Retail Banking Symposium.

Regulators seized two banks in Florida, and one in Kentucky, in a trio of failures Friday.

Aided by improved asset quality, lower expenses and increased fee income, Park National in Newark, Ohio, said Friday that it earned $20.7 million, or $1.34 per share, in the first quarter, easily beating consensus analysts' estimates.

The troubled Metropolitan Bank Group in Chicago has been ordered by the Federal Reserve not to boost the pay of its directors or officers without the Fed's permission.